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moor

[moor] / mʊər /


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The proceeds bought a Chicago-area mansion, a private jet and a 12,000-square-foot waterfront home in Naples, Fla., with its own dock to moor his 130-foot yacht, Top Dog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

One of the main things he bears in mind when deciding where to moor up is ensuring he can get to and from work from there.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Grace often takes her granddaughter, nearly five, onto the moor.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

"They want to come here and experience the Brontes, the moor, and find their own interpretation of Emily," he said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

And Stapleton escapes into the Grimpen Mire, which is part of the moor, and he dies because he is sucked into a bog.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon

Days of dry and windy weather have made conditions challenging for fire crews and volunteers tackling flames burning across peatland moors and in woodland.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

“Wuthering Heights” looks just as the voracious reader imagines it as they tear through the novel: drafty houses, windy moors, color and texture that bound from the screen.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

In my teens, I discovered the wild moors and ancient halls of “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Instead, the experimental units can be plants, plots of land, fields, moors, forests, or oceans.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

Then Maddie was away out of Stockport and up the unmade lanes on the high moors of the Pennine hills.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

These converged at a low stone tower, suggesting the central superstructure of a ship, around which its decks are moored.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

On Wednesday, a drone struck a US-owned gas vessel moored in an Egyptian port, causing a fire.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

Three days before the U.S. game in Seattle some 500 fans, most wearing the blue-and-white striped jerseys of Argentina, filed onto a 322-foot cargo barge moored in Elliott Bay to watch their team play Algeria.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

“Psychologically, I’m moored somewhere. This place is my anchor.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026

Scipio asked him as they moored the boats by a jetty in a secluded canal.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

A 10,000-square-foot restricted access warehouse to be built at the port will house mooring lines, pedestrian barriers, gangways and repair gear for the US Navy, said a spokeswoman.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Asked about the 5.5 million barrels of fuel that, according to Kpler data, arrived from Russia at the company’s mooring in the bay of Mersin this year, Ayrik said he couldn’t discuss the company’s customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

The ocean-going yellow sub - called Boaty McBoatyface - was being put through trials when its propeller snagged the mooring for the 1970s camera system.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025

Analysis of mooring observations and hydrographic data suggest the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation deep water limb in the North Atlantic has weakened.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024

He’d stand up in the stern, the better to squint at the imaginary mooring.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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