as in ditch
a deep, wide excavation that is usually filled with water and that goes around the walls of a place (such as a castle) to protect it from being attacked
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Recent Examples of moat
Install an Ant Moat Ant moats are little basins that hold water that are hung above hummingbird feeders.
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Peg Aloi, The Spruce, 7 Feb. 2026
Impact on China services, capital expenditure volatility, lack of a real moat like ASML.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
But that moat is now gone with the Groq deal, Feldman wrote.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
There is a technological moat, for now, but if the market for legged robots follows the same trajectory as the market for drones did, that moat will shrink drastically over the next few years.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025
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Peg Aloi, The Spruce, 7 Feb. 2026
Impact on China services, capital expenditure volatility, lack of a real moat like ASML.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
But that moat is now gone with the Groq deal, Feldman wrote.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
There is a technological moat, for now, but if the market for legged robots follows the same trajectory as the market for drones did, that moat will shrink drastically over the next few years.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for moat
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The woman charged in connection with the death of a newborn baby whose body was found 24 years ago in a ditch in Johnson County has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, officials announced Thursday.—
S.E. Jenkins,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
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The branch of McCoys Creek that cuts through Hollybrook Park in the North Riverside neighborhood resembles a ditch more than a natural stream.—
David Bauerlein,
Florida Times-Union,
6 Feb. 2026
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Indeed, her street style is more relaxed, featuring long leather trenches, loose jeans, track pants, and tank tops.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
14 Feb. 2026
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From a staple Magda Butrym trench to vintage Galliano and even more Gucci, Sydney has seen the breadth of the Bieber style repetioire.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2026
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Refurbishment of the dike around the lake is finished, and a revision of the lake management rules went into effect in 2024.—
Amy Green,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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Brandon Bell / Getty Images Since then, people have been fortifying dike systems to contain the water, often building housing and industrial buildings as close to the edge as flood plain planners allow.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
16 Dec. 2025
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Once thought extinct, they were rediscovered in a metal culvert in 1986.—
Josh Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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The Edgewater Stormwater Project replaces a culvert under the old railroad north of the Edgewater subdivision.—
Deborah Laverty,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2026
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But funny ha-ha peculiar, just like the director.—
John Waters,
Vulture,
3 Dec. 2025
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Is there anything in the wings at the IRS that will provide some guidance as to the taxable or nontaxable (ha-ha) nature of that lump sum?—
Liz Weston,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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The area has deep ravines and dense vegetation.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2026
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In 2017, Dellal, then a mechanical engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, helped create a sustainable, cost-effective system for deicing roofs and gutters as part of a class capstone project.—
P.R. Lockhart,
Hartford Courant,
12 Feb. 2026
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Massive heavy columns of ice are pulling away downspouts, gutters, and wires.—
Ross Guidotti,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Moat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moat. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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