moorings

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A Waltham Forest Council spokesperson said it was assessing and taking legal advice over "complex factors unique to moorings".

From BBC • May 14, 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

He said boats started to break from their moorings, and “one by one they started crashing into shore.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2025

He ran to the steel door and caught the bars in his hands and shook them, as though trying to tear the steel from its concrete moorings.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright