moorings
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He has no moorings, no internal guidance and no empathy.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Their pop-historical account of the Constitution has been debunked from top to bottom by legitimate legal historians, who have refuted the rotten moorings of this bogus theory with devastating precision.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2025
The attack damaged one of the moorings at a Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal, whose shareholders include Russia and Kazakhstan as well as U.S. majors Chevron and Exxon Mobil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Half a century ago, few of these frozen moorings, or "pinning points", showed much change.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2024
Boats clattered against their moorings in the heavy chop but none left the harbor; to take one out in such a gale would’ve been suicidal.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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