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{
"mooch":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one who mooches off others : moocher":[
"The last thing he needed was another mooch \u2026 trying to sap his energy and take his time \u2026",
"\u2014 Steve Pond"
],
": to get things from another or live off the generosity of others without providing any return payment or benefit : sponge":[
"trying to mooch a cigarette",
"mooching money off her brother",
"has been mooching off his parents for years"
],
": to move slowly or apathetically : to wander aimlessly":[
"\u2026 the rainy afternoons \u2026 spent mooching up and down the aisles of small-town pharmacies and hardware stores.",
"\u2014 Frederick Busch"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"he's always mooching off of his friends, even though he can easily pay his own way",
"I suspect she's mooching around in the background and keeping an eye on us.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Where teens mooch away afternoons savoring their content-free existence. \u2014 Alex Beam, WSJ , 10 June 2022",
"And some of you freeloaders, who mooch the password to other peoples\u2019 accounts, are partly to blame. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Just mooch off your neighbor's vacuum and clean up the smaller messes with this awesome OXO dustpan. \u2014 Gear Team, Wired , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Long story short: Costco memberships start at $60, so your time mooching off its food court for free could be running out. \u2014 cleveland , 24 Feb. 2020",
"Even a baby left to itself on the dungy farmyard ground, with cows mooching around, seems O.K. Hatidze, typically, welcomes these intruders and befriends the young. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 19 July 2019",
"Over time, Koonin argues, the parasitic genetic elements remained unable to replicate on their own and evolved into modern-day viruses that mooch off their cellular hosts. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 July 2014",
"In other words, viruses mooch off cells, so without cells, viruses can\u2019t exist. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 10 July 2014",
"Much of Wrangell looked unchanged since 1899: false-front buildings and clapboard churches, including one where Muir had mooched a night sleeping on the floor his very first night on Alaska soil. \u2014 Mark Adams, New York Times , 21 May 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1851, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"1914, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably from French dialect muchier to hide, lurk":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u00fcch"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"freeload",
"sponge"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070608",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mooch around/about":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to walk around with no particular purpose":[
"I've just been mooching about all afternoon.",
"We mooched around at some antique stores and then went to a caf\u00e9."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235219",
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
]
},
"moocha":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a loincloth of animals' tails or strips of animal skin worn by native peoples of South Africa":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Zulu unmutsha":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u00fcch\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000612",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moocher":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one who exploits the generosity of others : a person who mooches off others":[
"Whether it's stiffing drinking buddies with the check, bumming rides, \"borrowing\" cigarettes or sponging off meals, moochers can push the limits of friendship by making a habit of manipulating others to avoid paying their fair share.",
"\u2014 Liane Yvkoff",
"\u2026 have a simplistic morality tale to tell. People who receive direct government assistance in the form of Medicare, Social Security, or \u2026 welfare are simply assumed to be moochers .",
"\u2014 Neil H. Nuchanan",
"If Congress is slashing welfare, the blade ought to come down as brutally on corporate moochers as on social programs.",
"\u2014 Carl Hiaasen"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1857, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u00fc-ch\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035026",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mood":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a distinctive atmosphere or context : aura":[
"the weary city's sullen mood",
"\u2014 Marilyn Stasio",
"the mood is quiet and sleepy, as guests pick blueberries and read by the pond",
"\u2014 J. O. Nixon"
],
": a fit of anger : rage":[],
": a prevailing attitude":[
"the kind of mood that fostered the Salem witch trials",
"\u2014 Nat Hentoff"
],
": a receptive state of mind predisposing to action":[
"was not in a giving mood at the time"
],
": distinction of form or a particular set of inflectional forms of a verb to express whether the action or state it denotes is conceived as fact or in some other manner (such as command, possibility, or wish)":[],
": mode sense 1b":[],
": the form of a syllogism as determined by the quantity and quality of its constituent propositions":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1569, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English m\u014dd ; akin to Old High German muot mood":"Noun",
"alteration of mode entry 1":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u00fcd"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212620",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mood swing":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a very noticeable change in mood":[
"It's hard to relate to someone who has such wild/extreme mood swings ."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113330",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moody":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": expressive of a mood":[],
": subject to depression : gloomy":[],
": subject to moods : temperamental":[],
"Dwight Lyman 1837\u20131899 American evangelist":[]
},
"examples":[
"I don't know why I get so moody sometimes.",
"She's a moody woman\u2014she can be happy one minute and angry the next.",
"The room's moody lighting suggested mystery and romance.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This one is also wonderfully dark and moody for late sleep-ins. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 23 June 2022",
"The two friends have no contact for 15 years, and Pietro grows moody and distant with his father, wounding him by accusing him of wasting his life. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 May 2022",
"As a result, your devilish side loves to party and can be moody . \u2014 Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Lanegan\u2019s affable volubility contrasts greatly with most of the reports in the press about the difficult, moody , tortured, urn, drunk Screaming Trees frontman. \u2014 Jim Greer, SPIN , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Some things are just meant to be together, like broken hearts, smoky bars, meandering drives and this moody , bluesy song that bears witness to emotional wreckage. \u2014 Jessica Nicholson, Billboard , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The pictures themselves are a mix of photography of structures, walls and overpasses along the San Diego/Tijuana border that Hern\u00e1ndez snapped and then re-rendered into moody , atmospheric and sometimes stark statements on love and existence. \u2014 Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Mar. 2022",
"The record is moody but propulsive, animated by the perpetual pull of noxious romance. \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Jane Doe is unable to sleep, and Mary, who is typically joyful, is now moody , stressed and overwhelmed. \u2014 Casey Parks, Anchorage Daily News , 2 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1593, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u00fc-d\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"temperamental"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061044",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"biographical name",
"noun"
]
},
"moola":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": money":[
"Last year was boom time for U.S. corporate law firms that reeled in the moola from a spate of takeovers \u2026",
"\u2014 Fortune",
"\u2026 half-a-million dollars in campaign moola \u2026",
"\u2014 Carl Hiaasen",
"\"My flowered shirt looked cool in the store,\" Emily says. \"But I only have one item to wear with it, and it was a waste of moolah .\"",
"\u2014 Zillions",
"We're talking $1.8 billion of dividends a year, so that's major moolah .",
"\u2014 Allan Sloan",
"Planning vacations",
"\u2014 Mel Neuhaus"
]
},
"examples":[
"we dropped some serious moola on that home theater system",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Not entirely surprising, as online vintage shopping is a haven for people who have worked in editorial but don\u2019t quite have the moola to spend on the products featured in their magazines. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Behind the film lie the Panama Papers\u2014the millions of files, leaked in 2016, that demonstrated how the wealthy stash their moola offshore and thereby avoid the plebeian vulgarity of tax. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 20 Sep. 2019",
"The moola -saving-palooza started on July 15 at midnight PT and will end on July 16 at 11:59 PT. \u2014 Molly Longman, refinery29.com , 15 July 2019",
"The result is a lot of human misery and lost moola . \u2014 Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 13 July 2018",
"Thankfully, there are tax-free holidays happening across the country this month, meaning there's a lot of moola to be saved on all of those back-to-school necessities, like school supplies and clothes. \u2014 Madison Alcedo, Country Living , 11 Aug. 2017",
"Everyone agrees the bundles of moola are a lure for criminals, but merchants who can\u2019t access traditional banking have no other way to settle up. \u2014 Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle , 28 Jan. 2018",
"Lots of hoopla, but, sadly, precious little moola in the offing. \u2014 Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com , 6 July 2017",
"Clean highs and punchy midrange provide plenty of realistic sound for relatively little moola . \u2014 Charlie White, WIRED , 23 Oct. 2007"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1936, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u00fc-(\u02cc)l\u00e4",
"-l\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"bucks",
"cabbage",
"cash",
"change",
"chips",
"coin",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"green",
"jack",
"kale",
"legal tender",
"lolly",
"long green",
"loot",
"lucre",
"money",
"needful",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"shekels",
"sheqels",
"shekelim",
"shekalim",
"sheqalim",
"tender",
"wampum"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105912",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moolah":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": money":[
"Last year was boom time for U.S. corporate law firms that reeled in the moola from a spate of takeovers \u2026",
"\u2014 Fortune",
"\u2026 half-a-million dollars in campaign moola \u2026",
"\u2014 Carl Hiaasen",
"\"My flowered shirt looked cool in the store,\" Emily says. \"But I only have one item to wear with it, and it was a waste of moolah .\"",
"\u2014 Zillions",
"We're talking $1.8 billion of dividends a year, so that's major moolah .",
"\u2014 Allan Sloan",
"Planning vacations",
"\u2014 Mel Neuhaus"
]
},
"examples":[
"we dropped some serious moola on that home theater system",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Not entirely surprising, as online vintage shopping is a haven for people who have worked in editorial but don\u2019t quite have the moola to spend on the products featured in their magazines. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Behind the film lie the Panama Papers\u2014the millions of files, leaked in 2016, that demonstrated how the wealthy stash their moola offshore and thereby avoid the plebeian vulgarity of tax. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 20 Sep. 2019",
"The moola -saving-palooza started on July 15 at midnight PT and will end on July 16 at 11:59 PT. \u2014 Molly Longman, refinery29.com , 15 July 2019",
"The result is a lot of human misery and lost moola . \u2014 Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 13 July 2018",
"Thankfully, there are tax-free holidays happening across the country this month, meaning there's a lot of moola to be saved on all of those back-to-school necessities, like school supplies and clothes. \u2014 Madison Alcedo, Country Living , 11 Aug. 2017",
"Everyone agrees the bundles of moola are a lure for criminals, but merchants who can\u2019t access traditional banking have no other way to settle up. \u2014 Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle , 28 Jan. 2018",
"Lots of hoopla, but, sadly, precious little moola in the offing. \u2014 Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com , 6 July 2017",
"Clean highs and punchy midrange provide plenty of realistic sound for relatively little moola . \u2014 Charlie White, WIRED , 23 Oct. 2007"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1936, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u00fc-(\u02cc)l\u00e4",
"-l\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"bucks",
"cabbage",
"cash",
"change",
"chips",
"coin",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"green",
"jack",
"kale",
"legal tender",
"lolly",
"long green",
"loot",
"lucre",
"money",
"needful",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"shekels",
"sheqels",
"shekelim",
"shekalim",
"sheqalim",
"tender",
"wampum"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034704",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moon":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a highly translucent (see translucent sense 1 ) spot on old porcelain":[],
": an indefinite usually extended period of time":[
"a labor of many moons"
],
": lunule":[],
": moonlight":[
"keep out of the moon or it may turn your head",
"\u2014 H. R. Haggard"
],
": naked buttocks":[],
": one complete moon cycle consisting of four phases (see phase entry 1 sense 1 )":[],
": something impossible or inaccessible":[
"reach for the moon"
],
": something that resembles a moon: such as":[],
": the earth's natural satellite (see satellite sense 1a ) that shines by the sun's reflected light, revolves about the earth from west to east in about 29\u00b9/\u2082 days with reference to the sun or about 27\u00b9/\u2083 days with reference to the stars, and has a diameter of 2160 miles (3475 kilometers ), a mean distance from the earth of about 238,900 miles (384,400 kilometers), and a mass about one eightieth that of the earth":[
"\u2014 usually used with the"
],
": to expose one's naked buttocks to":[
"One of the boys mooned the crowd."
],
": to spend in idle reverie : dream":[
"\u2014 used with away mooned the afternoon away"
],
": to spend time in idle reverie : behave abstractedly":[
"fans mooning over movie stars"
],
": very pleased : in high spirits":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The telescope makes the craters on the surface of the moon incredibly clear.",
"the orbit of the Moon around the Earth",
"Europa and Io are both moons of Jupiter.",
"a planet orbited by one moon",
"Verb",
"One of the boys mooned the crowd.",
"One of the boys mooned at the crowd.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"This mission will kick off NASA's Artemis program, which is expected to return humans to the moon and land the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface by 2025. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"The robot is slated to be aboard the Chandrayaan-3 uncrewed mission to the moon . \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 24 June 2022",
"Since then, the moment has been memed to the moon and back, with fans even going as far to call the encounter flirtatious. \u2014 Seventeen , 23 June 2022",
"Kid Cudi is heading to the moon on his upcoming tour, kind of. \u2014 Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone , 21 June 2022",
"Its valves and fittings made it to the moon and back on a breathing pack worn by Astronaut Rusty Schweikart. \u2014 Judith Magyar, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"Any Jeep Wrangler, no matter the trim, would certainly eject its occupants to the moon at this pace. \u2014 David Beard, Car and Driver , 20 June 2022",
"In addition to work on Starship, the return of astronauts to the moon requires the Space Launch System, another large rocket under development by NASA that is also behind schedule. \u2014 Kenneth Chang, New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"The Orion spacecraft, launched atop the SLS rocket, would fly the astronauts to the moon . \u2014 Christian Davenport, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"An unruly passenger flying from Ireland to New York earlier this month got into trouble after allegedly creating multiple disturbances, going so far as to moon a flight attendant and throw an empty can at another passenger. \u2014 Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY , 23 Jan. 2022",
"Bart, meanwhile, makes a statement by pulling down his leather and denim trousers to moon the audience. \u2014 CNN , 4 Oct. 2021",
"Incredibly, #MeToo Marilyn, her body posed tilting slightly forward, will even be positioned to moon the museum. \u2014 Christopher Knight Art Critic, Los Angeles Times , 20 Mar. 2021",
"One of those includes Hayley\u2019s brother Jack (Sam Claflin), haplessly mooning over his dream girl (Olivia Munn), an American war journalist who gets a few muttered zingers, but is otherwise stuck acting, well, dreamy. \u2014 Amy Nicholson, New York Times , 10 Apr. 2020",
"He\u2019s even accused demonstrators of mooning security forces to provoke them. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Nov. 2019",
"Many on social media, however, did not find the mooning pumpkin man offensive and hit out at HOA\u2019s policies. \u2014 Alexandra Deabler, Fox News , 16 Oct. 2019",
"The paintings in the last two groups show their backsides, as if mooning viewers. \u2014 David Pagel, Los Angeles Times , 10 Oct. 2019",
"This episode, best remembered for the moment in which Julia accidentally moons a crowd (including the mayor of Atlanta), is a reminder that the series excelled at physical comedy in addition to sharp and rapid-fire dialogue. \u2014 Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY , 26 Aug. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1836, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English mone , from Old English m\u014dna ; akin to Old High German m\u0101no moon, Latin mensis month, Greek m\u0113n month, m\u0113n\u0113 moon":"Noun and Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u00fcn"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"aeon",
"eon",
"age",
"blue moon",
"coon's age",
"cycle",
"donkey's years",
"eternity",
"forever",
"long",
"months"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103931",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mooncalf":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a foolish or absentminded person : simpleton":[
"he was a helpless mooncalf of a man, poorly equipped for a grueling life",
"\u2014 Peter Schjeldahl"
]
},
"examples":[
"he was a helpless mooncalf when it came to making decisions about even the most trivial things"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1614, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02cck\u00e4f",
"\u02c8m\u00fcn-\u02cckaf"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"berk",
"booby",
"charlie",
"charley",
"cuckoo",
"ding-a-ling",
"ding-dong",
"dingbat",
"dipstick",
"doofus",
"featherhead",
"fool",
"git",
"goose",
"half-wit",
"jackass",
"lunatic",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"nut",
"nutcase",
"simp",
"simpleton",
"turkey",
"yo-yo"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065346",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moonshine":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": empty talk : nonsense":[],
": moonlight":[]
},
"examples":[
"Everything they said was just a load of moonshine .",
"during Prohibition, moonshine and \u201cbathtub gin\u201d were made secretly",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Go moonshine and wine sampling at the many stops along the Gatlinburg strip. \u2014 Andrea Reeves, The Enquirer , 1 June 2022",
"His novels too are set in a lawless South, their characters so surreal and disturbed they could be found only in dead-end towns marked by dirt roads and moonshine . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Bourbon is new to this generation of distillers, but the Neeleys have been making moonshine in Eastern Kentucky for 11-generations but only the most recent two have been legal. \u2014 Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal , 6 June 2022",
"The best way to describe it is as the Irish version of moonshine . \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Jeni\u2019s previously experimented with other savory flavors, including Parmesan and zucchini bread, and young Gouda with moonshine cranberries. \u2014 Katie Deighton, WSJ , 8 May 2022",
"In America, where the most popular racing events feature the stock cars that were born of moonshine runners, the opposite usually obtains. \u2014 Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The event will also feature Ole Smoky moonshine frozen slushies with dozens of flavor combinations to choose from, as well as Miller/Coors and Braxton beers and Coca-Cola fountain drinks. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 11 May 2022",
"Sliabh Liag is named for the peninsula in Donegal that was among the most prolific poit\u00edn (Irish moonshine ) producing areas in the County. \u2014 Jeanne O'brien Coffey, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u00fcn-\u02ccsh\u012bn"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bootleg",
"mountain dew",
"white lightning"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162251",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moonstruck":{
"antonyms":[
"balanced",
"compos mentis",
"sane",
"sound",
"uncrazy"
],
"definitions":{
": affected by or as if by the moon: such as":[],
": lost in fantasy or reverie":[],
": mentally unbalanced":[],
": romantically sentimental":[]
},
"examples":[
"a celebrity mobbed by moonstruck teenage girls",
"police asked psychiatrists to put together a portrait of the moonstruck marksman who was responsible for the shootings"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1674, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8m\u00fcn-\u02ccstr\u0259k"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"balmy",
"barmy",
"bats",
"batty",
"bedlam",
"bonkers",
"brainsick",
"bughouse",
"certifiable",
"crackbrained",
"cracked",
"crackers",
"crackpot",
"cranky",
"crazed",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"demented",
"deranged",
"fruity",
"gaga",
"haywire",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loco",
"loony",
"looney",
"loony tunes",
"looney tunes",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"maniacal",
"maniac",
"mental",
"meshuga",
"meshugge",
"meshugah",
"meshuggah",
"non compos mentis",
"nuts",
"nutty",
"psycho",
"psychotic",
"scatty",
"screwy",
"unbalanced",
"unhinged",
"unsound",
"wacko",
"whacko",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"wud"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-213431",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"moor":{
"antonyms":[
"anchor",
"catch",
"clamp",
"fasten",
"fix",
"hitch",
"secure",
"set"
],
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"as she wanders the windswept moor , the novel's heroine vows that she will never marry the vicar",
"a mysterious figure who was said to have haunted the moors of southwest England",
"Verb",
"We found a harbor and moored the boat there for the night.",
"The boat was moored alongside the dock.",
"We need to find a place to moor for the night.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The view from the dining room is already shaping up, as lush mounds of bluestar (Amsonia hubrichtii), catmint (Nepeta x faassenii Walker\u2019s Low) and Baptisia Ivory Towers consort with purple moor grass (Molinia caerulea subsp. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Mar. 2022",
"One measure would create a six-cents-per-pound tax on fish exports and a six-cent-per-foot mooring fee for any vessels that anchor or moor in Alaska harbors. \u2014 Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Warm moor mud and cocoa essence are the first application followed by a body brushing and fondue before being wrapped in a warm blanket. \u2014 Ramsey Qubein, Forbes , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Tramon Thompson, 25, of the 6500 block of S. Kenwood Ave, Chicago, was charged with expired license plate, no valid drivers license, unlawful possession of cannabis by driver and operating an uninsured moor vehicle, at 1:18 p.m. Nov. 4. \u2014 Pioneer Press Staff, chicagotribune.com , 15 Nov. 2021",
"When bad things go down in Charles Dickens, the scene is set in a forbidding moor . \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Omar\u2019s cohort stares at a television in an underfurnished room; the four stand in artful compositions, waiting to use a pay phone that sits glowing on the island\u2019s wide moor . \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 1 May 2021",
"Because this bank was shallow and prone to sand deposits, piers perpendicular to the bank were installed into deeper waters for vessels to moor . \u2014 Richard Campanella, NOLA.com , 1 Jan. 2021",
"Conan Doyle explored the moor with journalist Bertram Fletcher Robinson. \u2014 Eliza Mcgraw, WSJ , 29 Oct. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"Grounds planted with lavender, freesia and olive trees run down to a private beachfront with cabanas on oceanfront decking and two pontoons are ready to moor arriving yachts. \u2014 Lauren Jade Hill, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"Sutton Lake has 40 miles of shoreline to explore and clear waters to swim in backed by forested hills, with hundreds of coves to moor in for a night under the inky skies of central West Virginia. \u2014 Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure , 13 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 CBS News , 1 May 2022"
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"Among the many advantages of legislation requiring a label was that it allowed the industry to insist\u2014in court if necessary\u2014that claims against the companies for negligence and deception were now moot . Every smoker would be repeatedly warned that \"smoking may be hazardous to your health.\" \u2014 Allan M. Brandt , The Cigarette Century , 2007",
"And the question of delight shouldn't be moot . \u2014 Edward Hoagland , Harper's , June 2007",
"\u2026 a genuine Atlantic political culture might be the result\u2014rendering the fears expressed in this article largely moot . \u2014 John O'Sullivan , National Review , 6 Dec. 1999",
"The court ruled that the issue is now moot because the people involved in the dispute have died.",
"I think they were wrong, but the point is moot . Their decision has been made and it can't be changed now.",
"Verb",
"And it was they, not the British, who slapped down any suggestion of democratic reform when it was quietly mooted by British colonial officers in the 1950s. \u2014 Ian Buruma , New Republic , 24 Sept. 2001",
"\u2026 he looked for an easy way out. A spot in the stateside Guard would have suited him fine; in the event, he dodged and weaved until a low draft number came along to moot his problem. \u2014 Hendrik Hertzberg , New Yorker , 16 & 23 Oct. 2000",
"And then the word comes of Ted's inoperable pancreatic cancer, and death moots the long conflict. \u2014 Richard Rhodes , New York Times Book Review , 24 Dec. 2000",
"conservatives had shouted down the proposal when it was first mooted",
"the issue of whether a person's nature or upbringing is more important continues to be mooted by experts and laymen alike",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Because Volume 4: The Sparrow Academy has yet to release in print, any speculation over how its contents might influence season 4 is moot . \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 23 June 2022",
"The flexibility could render months of work moot by Simon, the Heat\u2019s vice president of basketball operations. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"According to Der Spiegel, Berlin\u2019s initial timidity was partly due to intelligence assessments that incorrectly assumed Kyiv would quickly buckle under Russia\u2019s assault, making the question of future arms deliveries moot . \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 13 June 2022",
"Media outlets had no access to images of the shooting\u2019s aftermath, so decisions about whether to publish graphic images from this situation are moot . \u2014 New York Times , 30 May 2022",
"Cawthorn recently argued the case was moot because of his May 17 Republican primary loss to state Sen. Chuck Edwards, despite support for his reelection bid from ex-President Donald Trump. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 25 May 2022",
"Cawthorn suggested his case was moot given his primary loss, but the court disagreed, given that the election had not yet been certified and because the same issue could come up in another campaign. \u2014 Rachel Weiner, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
"Defendants argued in a motion filed earlier this month the claims are moot because the plaintiffs are no longer detainees in the jail, so the court doesn't have jurisdiction to hear the case. \u2014 Ron Wood, Arkansas Online , 9 May 2022",
"Regardless of where Formula One ends up, the biggest priority is making sure its prized possessions are still easily accessible and available to its U.S. fans because without fans, Domenicali says, the point is moot . \u2014 Michael Lor\u00e9, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The report increases pressure on Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s administration, which plans to decide soon whether to proceed with HS2, which was first mooted in 2009 and has proven deeply unpopular with communities along its route. \u2014 Alex Morales, Bloomberg.com , 29 Apr. 2020",
"The deal, first mooted in August, gives Tencent a stake in a firm whose catalogue spans artists from ABBA and Bob Marley to Jay-Z and Taylor Swift. \u2014 The Economist , 2 Jan. 2020",
"Legends take shape; a miracle is reported; a mystery is mooted ; competing cults are born. \u2014 William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic , 17 May 2020",
"Worrying about the specific identities of those affected by COVID-19 may soon be moot , says Stephen Latham, director of Yale University\u2019s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics in Connecticut. \u2014 Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY , 6 Mar. 2020",
"The panel recommended a 600,000 to 1 million-barrel-a-day reduction in the second quarter, more ambitious than curbs mooted in February but still short of some estimates of the demand loss. \u2014 Grant Smith, BostonGlobe.com , 5 Mar. 2020",
"What\u2019s more, the possibility of this tie-up has been so long mooted that some bid premium should have been baked into the target\u2019s share price for a while. \u2014 Chris Hughes | Bloomberg, Washington Post , 19 Mar. 2019",
"That such a plan could even be mooted reflects the fact that, again, Trump does not understand the cure. \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 24 Mar. 2020",
"Firms welcomed the removal of a cap on migrant numbers, the opening up of routes for skilled workers and the lowering of the \u00a330,000 salary threshold initially mooted . \u2014 The Economist , 19 Feb. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This time, health authorities are grappling with more than the difficulty of quarantining and treating people in small villages far from modern medicine, or resistance from frightened people suspicious of outsiders in moon suits . \u2014 Dallas News , 5 Aug. 2019",
"This time, health authorities are grappling with more than the difficulty of quarantining and treating people in small villages far from modern medicine, or resistance from frightened people suspicious of outsiders in moon suits . \u2014 Dallas News , 5 Aug. 2019",
"This time, health authorities are grappling with more than the difficulty of quarantining and treating people in small villages far from modern medicine, or resistance from frightened people suspicious of outsiders in moon suits . \u2014 Dallas News , 5 Aug. 2019",
"Local doctors and nurses, clad in stifling moon suits to protect against the virus, work under unimaginable conditions. \u2014 Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post , 2 Aug. 2019",
"This time, health authorities are grappling with more than the difficulty of quarantining and treating people in small villages far from modern medicine, or resistance from frightened people suspicious of outsiders in moon suits . \u2014 Dallas News , 5 Aug. 2019",
"Local doctors and nurses, clad in stifling moon suits to protect against the virus, work under unimaginable conditions. \u2014 Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post , 2 Aug. 2019",
"This time, health authorities are grappling with more than the difficulty of quarantining and treating people in small villages far from modern medicine, or resistance from frightened people suspicious of outsiders in moon suits . \u2014 Dallas News , 5 Aug. 2019",
"This time, health authorities are grappling with more than the difficulty of quarantining and treating people in small villages far from modern medicine, or resistance from frightened people suspicious of outsiders in moon suits . \u2014 Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post , 2 Aug. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Professor Marcus moderated Fordham\u2019s award-winning moot court program for 42 years. \u2014 Sam Roberts, New York Times , 6 May 2022",
"Faigman said one of these efforts will include bringing middle and high schoolers from the Round Valley Indian Tribes to San Francisco to work with the college\u2019s law professors on moot court sessions and practice debating. \u2014 Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times , 6 Nov. 2021",
"Others did moot court arguments with actual judges brought in to respond. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Mar. 2021",
"Pete Stauber and Jim Hagedorn joined Rep. Tom Emmer and a lengthy list of fellow House Republicans in backing the legally questionable, now- moot court challenge. \u2014 Stephen Montemayor, Star Tribune , 11 Dec. 2020",
"Barrett was one of a number of judges participating in a moot court at William & Mary Law School in September that considered the ACA suit. \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 13 Oct. 2020",
"Daniel Bosch has joined the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center as its advocacy fellow, working in the administration, coaching and preparation of students for moot court , mock trial and alternative dispute resolution competitions. \u2014 NOLA.com , 10 Aug. 2020",
"Dry runs known as moot courts are by phone rather than in faux courtrooms. \u2014 Richard Wolf, USA TODAY , 30 Apr. 2020",
"The order also cancels mass public gatherings that take place at the courthouse, including naturalization ceremonies, group tours, moot courts , mock trials, bar meetings and attorney seminars. \u2014 Eric Heisig, cleveland , 16 Mar. 2020"
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"And among the nearly endless tasks that had to be completed for the Apollo moon shot , one woman spearheaded a critical engineering project: testing all the small gear the astronauts would take with them to the lunar surface.",
"\u2014 Kathryn Tully"
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"\u2026 paused at the plate to admire the second of the three homers\u2014a moon shot that landed a few rows short of a homemade sign in the rightfield bleachers \u2026",
"\u2014 Tim Crothers",
"White's pass, like his 43-yard touchdown to Tony Hill in the fourth quarter, was a moon shot , a high arching thing that took an hour to come down.",
"\u2014 Paul Zimmerman"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Rollin added another moon shot off Raegan Breedlove in the sixth. \u2014 James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Griffith described it as a moon shot \u2014where the patient is the one taking the real risks. \u2014 Brandy Schillace, Wired , 27 Jan. 2022",
"But his mission has morphed into the greatest moon shot of all: to bring bike racing to the American masses. \u2014 Outside Online , 12 Apr. 2021",
"In September, the White House released a multibillion-dollar plan for improving preparedness for pandemics or other biological threats, comparing it to the ambitious Apollo moon shot program of the 1960s and 1970s. \u2014 Paul Leblanc, CNN , 25 Jan. 2022",
"In mid-August, the first signs of an economic proposal by the league were leaked out but portrayed as more of a moon shot . \u2014 Maury Brown, Forbes , 12 Nov. 2021",
"The Texas law is fantastically reckless\u2014not as much a legal moon shot as a volatile rocket poised to blow up\u2014in more than one respect. \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 3 Nov. 2021",
"The first three American astronauts in the moon shot program were killed within minutes. \u2014 Rachel Riederer, Harper's Magazine , 26 Oct. 2021",
"The Dogecoin price recovered on Sunday after Musk's SpaceX announced\u2014get this\u2014a moon shot funded by Dogecoin. \u2014 Fortune , 10 May 2021"
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"All the girls in the class are mooning over the handsome new teacher."
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"A figure appeared in the moonlight .",
"Verb",
"She is a secretary who moonlights as a waitress on weekends.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Romans believed that the stone was a solid ray of moonlight filled with good fortune. \u2014 Beth Bernstein, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Two other Chinese men already dangled there, half-naked in the moonlight . \u2014 Michael Luo, The New Yorker , 11 May 2022",
"Nighttime scenes set outdoors are spookily drained of color and forced to evoke the wondrous, ominous purity of moonlight . \u2014 K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Then, just put it in the brightest spot in your home where the moonlight can shine on it. \u2014 Brie Gatchalian, Woman's Day , 6 May 2022",
"Only moonlight cut through the darkness early one recent morning by the time a smuggler led Husam Misk to a ladder propped against Israel\u2019s concrete separation barrier. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The clouds dissipate, and the moonlight gives way to radiant beams of morning sunlight. \u2014 Zachary Weiss, Vogue , 2 Dec. 2021",
"If the sun is setting on Facebook, then TikTok is dancing in the moonlight . \u2014 Laura Forman, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
"With cars gone, acres of cobblestones glow in the moonlight giving shape to the rusting tank traps, sandbags, and concrete blocks of checkpoints, looming at crossroads like scenes from a World War II film. \u2014 Johnny O'reilly, Rolling Stone , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Tucker could fill a number of holes on the Sixers as a low-usage three-and-D forward who can moonlight as a small-ball 5 in short doses. \u2014 Bryan Toporek, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"IoT companies, the kind that want connect your toasters to the web, cannot moonlight with cybersecurity. \u2014 Emil Sayegh, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"There\u2019s a bit of gray area with the nomenclature, but these masks also moonlight as overnight moisturizers. \u2014 Adam Hurly, Robb Report , 15 Aug. 2021",
"Flier, who now serves on two for-profit boards, does not believe academic leaders, including hospital presidents, should moonlight as directors for for-profit companies. \u2014 Liz Kowalczyk, Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault, STAT , 9 Apr. 2021",
"Flier, who now serves on two for-profit boards, does not believe academic leaders, including hospital presidents, should moonlight as directors for for-profit companies. \u2014 Liz Kowalczyk, Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault, STAT , 9 Apr. 2021",
"Flier, who now serves on two for-profit boards, does not believe academic leaders, including hospital presidents, should moonlight as directors for for-profit companies. \u2014 Liz Kowalczyk, Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault, STAT , 9 Apr. 2021",
"Flier, who now serves on two for-profit boards, does not believe academic leaders, including hospital presidents, should moonlight as directors for for-profit companies. \u2014 Liz Kowalczyk, Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault, STAT , 9 Apr. 2021",
"Flier, who now serves on two for-profit boards, does not believe academic leaders, including hospital presidents, should moonlight as directors for for-profit companies. \u2014 Liz Kowalczyk, Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault, STAT , 9 Apr. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Under the proposal, the Horicon refuge would be open to hunting for woodcock, moorhen , coyote, ruffed grouse, opossum, raccoon, fox, skunk, bobcat, snowshoe hare and black bear on acres already open to other hunting. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2020",
"All of the windows look out on the river, abundant with trout and irresistible to herons and moorhens . \u2014 Jo Rodgers, Vogue , 4 Apr. 2018",
"Silverman further populates her wuthering heights with a winsome governess (Chasten Harmon), a typhoid maid (Hannah Cabell), a talking moorhen (Teresa Avia Lim), and a glum mastiff (Andrew Garman). \u2014 The New Yorker , 31 Mar. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The mission will end with Dart ramming the main asteroid\u2019s moonlet to change its orbit, a test that could one day save Earth from an incoming rock. \u2014 NBC News , 15 Oct. 2021",
"But the double-asteroid system offers an attractive target to DART because the probe's impact can be more easily measured from Earth by precisely timing how the moonlet 's orbital period around Didymos changes as a result of the collision. \u2014 William Harwood, CBS News , 24 Nov. 2021",
"All nature needs to create this invisible scaffolding are two celestial bodies, whether a star and its planet, or a planet and its moon, or even a moon and its moonlet . \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 10 Dec. 2021",
"An artist's impression of the DART probe closing in on Dimorphos, a small moonlet orbiting a half-mile-wide asteroid known as Didymos. \u2014 William Harwood, CBS News , 24 Nov. 2021",
"Next fall, after a journey of more than six million miles, the probe will crash at 15,000 miles an hour into Dimorphos, a tiny moonlet that orbits a larger asteroid called Didymos. \u2014 Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ , 23 Nov. 2021",
"In fact, the Dimorphos moonlet may have formed simply by spinning off the side of Didymos. \u2014 Ramin Skibba, Wired , 23 Nov. 2021",
"The spacecraft \u2013 traveling at a speed of roughly 6.6 kilometers per second \u2013 is headed for the small moonlet asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger companion asteroid called Didymos. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 20 Nov. 2021",
"Didymos, nearly 800 meters across, is orbited by a moonlet , Dimorphos, which is 160 meters long. \u2014 Robin George Andrews, Scientific American , 18 Nov. 2021"
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"Howe said the moose unexpectedly walked out into the road. \u2014 Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
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"The top lot was a moonless perpetual calendar customized for former Patek Philippe executive Alan Banbery. \u2014 Carol Besler, Forbes , 24 May 2021",
"Prior to the development of artificial lighting, the naked human eye could see up to 6,000 stars on a clear, moonless night. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 26 May 2021",
"Know how to maneuver under a moonless sky that merges with the sea and not allow yourself to be intoxicated by the sensation of flying. \u2014 Martin Dumont, The New York Review of Books , 5 Feb. 2020",
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"The 100-pound opah fish, also known as a moonfish , was discovered on Sunset Beach in Seaside, a city located in the northwest side of the state. \u2014 Amanda Jackson, CNN , 19 July 2021",
"The haul was amazing: moonfish and blue lobster, greens Britko had never heard of. \u2014 Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com , 11 Sep. 2019",
"Brozanski, president of Stokes Fish in Florida, was standing beside his seafood display, which included moonfish and other niche-domestic species. \u2014 Rachel Ellner, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2018",
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"The moonfaced 42-year-old was deep into a marathon poker session at Stones Gambling Hall, a boxy glass-and-steel casino wedged between Interstate 80 and a Popeye's in suburban Sacramento. \u2014 Brendan I. Koerner, Wired , 21 Sep. 2020",
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"One in five entrepreneurs is dealing with a mood disorder , to say nothing of addiction, substance abuse, narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality. \u2014 Wsj Staff, WSJ , 22 May 2022",
"The numbers are even higher in Trumbull County, where Keyes said 1,200 to 1,800 developed a mood disorder , some 2,700 to 4,100 suffered an anxiety disorder, and as many as 1,200 children faced their own substance abuse issue. \u2014 Adam Ferrise, cleveland , 10 May 2022",
"Light therapy is one of the go-to treatments for seasonal affective disorder (SAD)\u2014a type of seasonal mood disorder that leaves people feeling lonely, depressed, or isolated and typically strikes during the cold, dark winter months. \u2014 Sarah Klein, Health.com , 5 Nov. 2021",
"Billy, who struggles with a mood disorder and was psychologically abused by his father, relies on escapist storytelling and alcohol to dull his pain. \u2014 Leah Tyler, ajc , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Perinatal depression is a mood disorder that occurs during the perinatal period, which includes pregnancy and up to a year after giving birth, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). \u2014 Korin Miller, Health.com , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The law defines postpartum depression as a mood disorder that strikes many women during pregnancy and up to a year after delivery. \u2014 Robert Mccoppin, chicagotribune.com , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Symptoms vary greatly, but in general, depressed girls may become withdrawn, whereas boys may fight or act out, incurring the label of behavior problem rather than, say, mood disorder . \u2014 New York Times , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Symptoms can include high blood pressure, joint and muscle pain, difficulty with memory and concentration, headache, abdominal pain, and mood disorder . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 1 Mar. 2022"
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"Post Malone is the top contender at the 2019 American Music Awards, where Taylor Swift has a chance to moonwalk past Michael Jackson\u2019s record for most wins at the show. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Oct. 2019",
"The company has mastered the art of avoidance, by exploiting foreign tax havens and moonwalking through the seemingly infinite loopholes that accountants dream up. \u2014 Franklin Foer, The Atlantic , 10 Oct. 2019",
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"The moon will appear full from Sunday moonrise to Wednesday moonset, according to NASA. \u2014 Rachel Fadem And Ashley Strickland, CNN , 13 June 2022",
"So, ready your telescopes and prepare to stare up at the moonrise in the night sky. \u2014 Emily Newhouse, Allure , 13 June 2022",
"Time and Date reported Friday that moonrise in New York City is at 4:31 p.m. EST. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 15 Jan. 2022",
"Moonrise tonight is at 6:41 p.m., with moonrise coming at 7:52 p.m. Saturday. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2022",
"To experience a good moonrise , go outside a little before sunset, find a location with a clear view to the eastern horizon, kick back and relax. \u2014 Dean Regas, The Enquirer , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Look to the sky in the early morning hours in early August, after the moon has set, or look between sunset and moonrise after the shower\u2019s peak. \u2014 Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com , 2 Jan. 2022",
"Parts of South America can catch a glimpse at moonset, and parts of East Asia and Australia might see the eclipse at moonrise . \u2014 Sherry Liang, CNN , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Friday\u2019s moonrise came on the evening of a day that had changed vastly from Thursday, which had a high temperature of 74. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Nov. 2021"
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"Their site, Waun Mawn, is a bleak moorland a few miles from Craig Rhos-y-felin and Carn Goedog; one stone stands there today, next to three lying on their sides. \u2014 Simon Akam, The New Yorker , 15 Feb. 2022",
"The street outside, littered with empty soda cans and plastic bags, transformed into some romantic Victorian moorland . \u2014 Elisabeth Thomas, refinery29.com , 12 May 2020",
"The ambitious plan calls for huge tunneling machines that will bore into the rich seams of fertilizer beneath the sea and moorland . \u2014 Ronan Martin, Bloomberg.com , 10 May 2020",
"But, particularly as one presses ever northward into the Scottish Highlands, the moorlands can also make for a challenging and sometimes perilous landscape. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Apr. 2020",
"Developers have described the site as 815 acres of sweeping moorland and the peat bog on the peninsula of A'Mhoine, close to, bounding or within a range of environmental designations. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 11 Oct. 2019",
"Underground suffering involved painful squeezes through tight, cold and wet passages: Putting on a frozen wet suit and marching across frozen Yorkshire moorland . \u2014 Ben Santer, Scientific American , 16 Sep. 2019",
"More from Mansion Buyers who dream of a remote moorland farmhouse could consider Hill Top Farm, a picturesque property 3 miles outside of Harrogate, listed with Carter Jonas with a guide price of $4.2 million. \u2014 Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ , 9 Aug. 2018",
"Cheers to Sharon Bolton for the clever opening scene in DEAD WOMAN WALKING (Minotaur, $25.99), which takes place in a hot-air balloon flying over the moorlands of England\u2019s far north. \u2014 Marilyn Stasio, New York Times , 13 Sep. 2017"
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"The view from the dining room is already shaping up, as lush mounds of bluestar (Amsonia hubrichtii), catmint (Nepeta x faassenii Walker\u2019s Low) and Baptisia Ivory Towers consort with purple moor grass (Molinia caerulea subsp. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Mar. 2022",
"One measure would create a six-cents-per-pound tax on fish exports and a six-cent-per-foot mooring fee for any vessels that anchor or moor in Alaska harbors. \u2014 Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Warm moor mud and cocoa essence are the first application followed by a body brushing and fondue before being wrapped in a warm blanket. \u2014 Ramsey Qubein, Forbes , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Tramon Thompson, 25, of the 6500 block of S. Kenwood Ave, Chicago, was charged with expired license plate, no valid drivers license, unlawful possession of cannabis by driver and operating an uninsured moor vehicle, at 1:18 p.m. Nov. 4. \u2014 Pioneer Press Staff, chicagotribune.com , 15 Nov. 2021",
"When bad things go down in Charles Dickens, the scene is set in a forbidding moor . \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Omar\u2019s cohort stares at a television in an underfurnished room; the four stand in artful compositions, waiting to use a pay phone that sits glowing on the island\u2019s wide moor . \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 1 May 2021",
"Because this bank was shallow and prone to sand deposits, piers perpendicular to the bank were installed into deeper waters for vessels to moor . \u2014 Richard Campanella, NOLA.com , 1 Jan. 2021",
"Conan Doyle explored the moor with journalist Bertram Fletcher Robinson. \u2014 Eliza Mcgraw, WSJ , 29 Oct. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"Grounds planted with lavender, freesia and olive trees run down to a private beachfront with cabanas on oceanfront decking and two pontoons are ready to moor arriving yachts. \u2014 Lauren Jade Hill, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"Sutton Lake has 40 miles of shoreline to explore and clear waters to swim in backed by forested hills, with hundreds of coves to moor in for a night under the inky skies of central West Virginia. \u2014 Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure , 13 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 CBS News , 1 May 2022"
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"The wind was strong enough to tear the boat from its moorings .",
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"Crew members get the mooring ropes ready as the superyacht Amadea, linked to Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, arrives at the Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii, June 16, 2022. \u2014 CBS News , 27 June 2022",
"In addition to the launch system, the Fujian is equipped with blocking devices, and a full-load displacement of more than 80,000 tons, Xinhua reported, adding that the ship will carry out mooring tests and navigation tests after the launch. \u2014 Nectar Gan, Brad Lendon, CNN , 17 June 2022",
"The property has three deeded buoys for mooring boats and a breakwater jetty with a private pier. \u2014 Katherine Clarke, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"To cater to the territory\u2019s robust charter and private yachting industries, the resort will also feature more than 70 mooring balls and 25 marina slips. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Only 13 of the 68 vessels currently anchored-out are enrolled in the program, and would be given priority to move onto the mooring field, protecting them from displacement, said McGrath. \u2014 Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle , 20 Apr. 2022",
"But the mooring would be dismantled in 2026, kindling questions and concerns about a plan to spend public money on what would only be a temporary fix. \u2014 Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Never were there more than four divers on an outing, excluding our dive master, nor another boat at the mooring . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Data collection equipment includes specialized quiet mooring technology, whale vocalization detection algorithms, and telecommunication to transmit whale alerts. \u2014 Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun , 31 Mar. 2022"
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"Every piece of equipment discussed above, along with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, plus a power moonroof , is included in that price. \u2014 Karl Brauer, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
"The top-line XSE includes paddle shifters along with a moonroof and ambient lighting. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 30 Oct. 2021",
"Mazda packs every turbo with heated front seats, a power moonroof , auto-dimming rear mirror, and a nice set of safety features that includes lane-departure assist, blind-spot monitoring, and braking assist. \u2014 The Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics , 18 May 2021",
"For those that like to let the sun shine in while driving, the EUV is now available with a glass moonroof which is not offered on the shorter model. \u2014 Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes , 1 Mar. 2021",
"All Turbo models get heated front seats, a power moonroof , auto-dimming rear mirror, and a nice set of safety features that includes lane-departure assist, blind-spot monitoring, and braking assist. \u2014 Louis Mazzante, Popular Mechanics , 9 Feb. 2021",
"Above your head is a power moonroof , and the premium audio system is from Harman/Kardon. \u2014 Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver , 28 Aug. 2020",
"Advanced Technology Package adds adaptive cruise, surround camera, and more for $1,790; Experience Buick Package adds a moonroof and 18-inch wheels for $1,500; Convenience Package adds parking assist and rear camera mirror for $520. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 31 Oct. 2020",
"The other package, which costs $2995, adds a moonroof and TomTom navigation. \u2014 Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver , 6 Aug. 2020"
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"Beyond the occasional moonquake , not much happens amidst the impact basins that were once brimming with lava. \u2014 David Grossman, Popular Mechanics , 13 Jan. 2022",
"Beyond the occasional moonquake , not much happens amidst the impact basins that were once brimming with lava billions of years ago. \u2014 David Grossman, Popular Mechanics , 19 Nov. 2020",
"Beyond the occasional moonquake , not much happens amidst the impact basins that were once brimming with lava billions of years ago. \u2014 David Grossman, Popular Mechanics , 19 Nov. 2020",
"The moon has moonquakes Small moonquakes several miles below the surface are believed to be caused by the gravitational pull of the Earth. \u2014 Fox News , 16 Mar. 2020",
"In general, the shape of these events is similar to that of moonquakes . \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 25 Feb. 2020",
"Exploring lunar nova The lander is equipped with a seismometer to listen for moonquakes and a Langmuir probe that will measure fluctuations in the wispy plasma enveloping the lunar surface. \u2014 Sanjay Kumar, Science | AAAS , 7 Sep. 2019",
"The lander carried a thermal probe to take the moon\u2019s temperature up to 10 centimeters underground and was also equipped with a seismometer to monitor moonquakes , which could have provided important information about the moon\u2019s deep interior. \u2014 Jonathan O'callaghan, Scientific American , 6 Sep. 2019",
"Vikram contains equipment for three experiments: one to study the Moon's ionosphere, one to study the temperature of the top 4 inches of the lunar surface and the other to study moonquakes . \u2014 Fox News , 2 Sep. 2019"
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"The view from the dining room is already shaping up, as lush mounds of bluestar (Amsonia hubrichtii), catmint (Nepeta x faassenii Walker\u2019s Low) and Baptisia Ivory Towers consort with purple moor grass (Molinia caerulea subsp. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Mar. 2022",
"One measure would create a six-cents-per-pound tax on fish exports and a six-cent-per-foot mooring fee for any vessels that anchor or moor in Alaska harbors. \u2014 Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Warm moor mud and cocoa essence are the first application followed by a body brushing and fondue before being wrapped in a warm blanket. \u2014 Ramsey Qubein, Forbes , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Tramon Thompson, 25, of the 6500 block of S. Kenwood Ave, Chicago, was charged with expired license plate, no valid drivers license, unlawful possession of cannabis by driver and operating an uninsured moor vehicle, at 1:18 p.m. Nov. 4. \u2014 Pioneer Press Staff, chicagotribune.com , 15 Nov. 2021",
"When bad things go down in Charles Dickens, the scene is set in a forbidding moor . \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Omar\u2019s cohort stares at a television in an underfurnished room; the four stand in artful compositions, waiting to use a pay phone that sits glowing on the island\u2019s wide moor . \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 1 May 2021",
"Because this bank was shallow and prone to sand deposits, piers perpendicular to the bank were installed into deeper waters for vessels to moor . \u2014 Richard Campanella, NOLA.com , 1 Jan. 2021",
"Conan Doyle explored the moor with journalist Bertram Fletcher Robinson. \u2014 Eliza Mcgraw, WSJ , 29 Oct. 2020",
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"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"Grounds planted with lavender, freesia and olive trees run down to a private beachfront with cabanas on oceanfront decking and two pontoons are ready to moor arriving yachts. \u2014 Lauren Jade Hill, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"Sutton Lake has 40 miles of shoreline to explore and clear waters to swim in backed by forested hills, with hundreds of coves to moor in for a night under the inky skies of central West Virginia. \u2014 Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure , 13 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 CBS News , 1 May 2022"
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"In the single\u2019s accompanying video, the artists appear in a variety of celestial settings \u2014 floating on a bed in the clouds, posing atop a moonscape , dancing in an otherworldly water scene \u2014 all the while looking gorgeous in every frame. \u2014 Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone , 25 Mar. 2022",
"During the Cold War, Germany would have been turned into a moonscape , had the East-West confrontation ever turned hot. \u2014 Rafael Loss, CNN , 3 Mar. 2022",
"On Tonga\u2019s main island of Tongatapu, perhaps the biggest problem is the ash that has transformed it into a gray moonscape , contaminating the rainwater that people normally rely on to drink. \u2014 Moussa Moussa And David Rising, Anchorage Daily News , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Perhaps the biggest problem is the ash that has coated the main island and transformed it into a gray moonscape , contaminating the rainwater that people rely on to drink. \u2014 Nick Perry, chicagotribune.com , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Perhaps the biggest problem is the ash that has coated the main island and transformed it into a gray moonscape , contaminating the rainwater that people rely on to drink. \u2014 Nick Perry, ajc , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Satellite and aerial surveillance images of Tonga taken on Monday showed the country\u2019s vibrant green landscape transformed by the volcanic ash into a brownish gray moonscape . \u2014 Siladitya Ray, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
"And so, at around 2.45 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon, the participants -- aged 19 to 70, and mostly Israeli, though some were from Switzerland, Britain and America, too -- walked gingerly on the rocky moonscape into the formation prescribed by Tunick. \u2014 CNN , 17 Oct. 2021",
"Caterpillar earthmovers scooped up loose rocks and hauled them across a barren moonscape to the quarry\u2019s labyrinthine network of crushing machines. \u2014 Brian Chasnoff, San Antonio Express-News , 6 Oct. 2021"
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"Even though many wild grape species ripen at the same time as moonseed , the seeds are very different. \u2014 Tim Macwelch, Outdoor Life , 13 Aug. 2019"
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"The view from the dining room is already shaping up, as lush mounds of bluestar (Amsonia hubrichtii), catmint (Nepeta x faassenii Walker\u2019s Low) and Baptisia Ivory Towers consort with purple moor grass (Molinia caerulea subsp. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Mar. 2022",
"One measure would create a six-cents-per-pound tax on fish exports and a six-cent-per-foot mooring fee for any vessels that anchor or moor in Alaska harbors. \u2014 Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Warm moor mud and cocoa essence are the first application followed by a body brushing and fondue before being wrapped in a warm blanket. \u2014 Ramsey Qubein, Forbes , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Tramon Thompson, 25, of the 6500 block of S. Kenwood Ave, Chicago, was charged with expired license plate, no valid drivers license, unlawful possession of cannabis by driver and operating an uninsured moor vehicle, at 1:18 p.m. Nov. 4. \u2014 Pioneer Press Staff, chicagotribune.com , 15 Nov. 2021",
"When bad things go down in Charles Dickens, the scene is set in a forbidding moor . \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Omar\u2019s cohort stares at a television in an underfurnished room; the four stand in artful compositions, waiting to use a pay phone that sits glowing on the island\u2019s wide moor . \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 1 May 2021",
"Because this bank was shallow and prone to sand deposits, piers perpendicular to the bank were installed into deeper waters for vessels to moor . \u2014 Richard Campanella, NOLA.com , 1 Jan. 2021",
"Conan Doyle explored the moor with journalist Bertram Fletcher Robinson. \u2014 Eliza Mcgraw, WSJ , 29 Oct. 2020",
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"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"Grounds planted with lavender, freesia and olive trees run down to a private beachfront with cabanas on oceanfront decking and two pontoons are ready to moor arriving yachts. \u2014 Lauren Jade Hill, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"Sutton Lake has 40 miles of shoreline to explore and clear waters to swim in backed by forested hills, with hundreds of coves to moor in for a night under the inky skies of central West Virginia. \u2014 Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure , 13 May 2022",
"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
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"The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. \u2014 CBS News , 1 May 2022"
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"Parts of South America can catch a glimpse at moonset , and parts of East Asia and Australia might see the eclipse at moonrise. \u2014 Sherry Liang, CNN , 18 Nov. 2021",
"The exact same physics is at play for a a sunrise, a moonrise and a moonset , but what about during a total lunar eclipse? \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 21 May 2021",
"In the Northern Hemisphere, the Lyrids are best viewed during the dark hours after moonset and before dawn. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 21 Apr. 2021",
"Experts recommend catching the moonset over the western horizon on Friday morning, or the moonrise over the eastern horizon on Friday evening. \u2014 Tierney Mcafee, Country Living , 5 June 2020",
"However, despite not being able to see the eclipse, North America is perfectly placed to watch the Strawberry Moon at its very best \u2014 at both moonrise and moonset \u2014 on Friday, June 5, 2020. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Travel + Leisure , 31 May 2020",
"There are two specific times to look at the Super Flower Moon to see it at its very best \u2014 moonrise and moonset . \u2014 Jamie Carter, Travel + Leisure , 2 May 2020",
"In Wisconsin, moonset times are: Aug. 9, 12:47 a.m. Aug. 10, 1:26 a.m. Aug. 11, 2:10 a.m. Aug. 12, 2:59 a.m. Aug. 13, 3:53 a.m. Aug. 14, 4:51 a.m. Travel anywhere there's not much light pollution \u2014 meaning it's best to get away from city lights. \u2014 Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 Aug. 2019",
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"The study will help determine whether floating docks are viable for transient moorage and for staging areas for local individuals or charter boats loading and unloading gear and passengers, according to officials. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 Sep. 2021",
"Officers were called to the moorage at Chandler\u2019s Cove around 4:30 a.m., where the theft had been reported, according to the Seattle Police Department. \u2014 Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times , 21 Aug. 2018",
"There are moorage rental fees of about $500 to $850 per month. \u2014 Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com , 31 Mar. 2018",
"Each of the more than 40 moorage facilities in the Greater Portland Area has unique rules and fees. \u2014 Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com , 31 Mar. 2018",
"Continuous cruisers also avoid moorage costs, which for a boat the length of Lee Marie would be about $3,500 annually at nearby Swanley Bridge Marina. \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 30 Mar. 2018",
"As the sun rises the moorage is perfectly quiet, with just two other sailboats in Delano Bay. \u2014 Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times , 6 Sep. 2017",
"Unlike much of the San Juans, few South Sound moorages are out of sight of waterfront homes, and that\u2019s true of Cutts Island. \u2014 Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times , 6 Sep. 2017",
"In July 2013, Yeiser signed a moorage agreement to dock his 55-foot motorsailer named the Flying Gull at a South Lake Union marina on Westlake Avenue North, court records show. \u2014 Sara Jean Green, The Seattle Times , 10 July 2017"
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