the moon
noun
variants
or the Moon
: the large round object that circles the Earth and that shines at night by reflecting light from the sun
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The high-profile Artemis 2 mission will be the first to send astronauts to the vicinity of the moon in more than 50 years.
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William Harwood, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2026
By establishing a power grid on the moon, agencies can support life-support systems, laboratories, and resource-extraction activities that are constrained by intermittent power sources.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026
Instead, his dad and grandmother and aunts and uncles told him that his mom had left Earth and gone to the moon.
—Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 14 Jan. 2026
The result is a series of mind-scrambling maps—of lightning, kissing, slavery, and the moon.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
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William Harwood, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2026
By establishing a power grid on the moon, agencies can support life-support systems, laboratories, and resource-extraction activities that are constrained by intermittent power sources.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026
Instead, his dad and grandmother and aunts and uncles told him that his mom had left Earth and gone to the moon.
—Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 14 Jan. 2026
The result is a series of mind-scrambling maps—of lightning, kissing, slavery, and the moon.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
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“The moon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20moon. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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