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as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
as she wanders the windswept moor, the novel's heroine vows that she will never marry the vicar
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as in marsh
spongy land saturated or partially covered with water
a mysterious figure who was said to have haunted the moors of southwest England
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as in to fasten
to put securely in place or in a desired position
moored the boat to the dock
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Recent Examples of moor
Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
Now, Robbie, Elordi, and Fennell will bring us moor.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2024
Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2024
The couple moored up at Ka‘upulehu, an ancient Polynesian settlement that had been abandoned in the 1930s.
—Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
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Published by Brontë under the pseudonym Ellis Bell a year before her death, Wuthering Heights is set in the Yorkshire moors and revolves around the intense and often destructive relationships between two families: the Earnshaws and the Lintons.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
Now, Robbie, Elordi, and Fennell will bring us moor.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2024
Verb
His friend, David, furiously began digging the pumpkin out, but the pair soon discovered that the beach had been used to moor barges, and there were large industrial cables underneath the ground.
—Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2024
The couple moored up at Ka‘upulehu, an ancient Polynesian settlement that had been abandoned in the 1930s.
—Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
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Dead Outlaw David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, and Itamar Moses’s musical unspools with the homey charm of broadcast heard on a fuzzy radio transmission on a winter night in the prairie.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
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The Northeast does not have the huge prairies conducive for wind farms or the easily accessible geothermal energy that exists in parts of the West Coast.Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2024
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Kayak the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge Kayak the calm waters of Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge for views across pristine freshwater marshes and maritime forests.AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 17 Dec. 2024
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Wright's marsh thistle (scientific name: Cirsium wrightii) Zuni fleabane (scientific name: Erigeron rhizomatus) Reach the reporter at zbradshaw@gannett.com or on X @ZachBradshaw14.Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2024
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Middleton looked vibrant and healthy while wearing a long red coat with a large black bow fastened to the collar.Janelle Ash, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2024
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Pull neck skin to back and fasten with a small skewer.Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Nov. 2024
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Deep in the sagebrush steppe of southeast Idaho on December 20, 1951, a team of nuclear physicists gathered around four 200-watt lightbulbs dangling from a slack wire.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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But that factor, so present for so long in world history, disappeared first with Czar’s troops overrunning the steppes of Central Asia in the late 1700s.Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk ... think about it ...Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
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The satellite rolled into a swamp, whereupon it was nicknamed Kaputnik.Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Her city initiatives included securing a living wage ordinance, domestic partner benefits for city employees and tenant protections.Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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In winter, the Ho-Chunk would secure the vessels in shallow water, to prevent them from drying out before spring.Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
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The lake was a white plain with patches of dark timber on the far shore.Wilson H. Stover, Outdoor Life, 5 Dec. 2024
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What a 1,000-mile railway across the Yucatán jungle says about Mexico’s outgoing president Sept. 29, 2024 The canal networks were built as early as 4,000 years ago by semi-nomadic people in the Yucatan coastal plain.Christina Larson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2024
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And that guy walking through wetlands in a white collared shirt?Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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The Band has since contested the wetland and waterway permit granted by the DNR and filed a lawsuit against the state agency, arguing the final environmental impact statement violates the state’s Environmental Protection Act.Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Moor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moor. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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