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Recent Examples of moon Just like most of the homers Burress blasted in college, his two long balls for the Ports have been nothing short of moon shots. Hunter Delauder, AJC.com, 7 Aug. 2026 At this stage, there is an opportunity for a solar eclipse to occur if the path of the new moon crosses in front of the sun’s path, Catherine Muller, an astronomer at Royal Observatory Greenwich, tells TIME. Callum Sutherland, Time, 7 Aug. 2026 Voyager 1 zipped past Jupiter in 1979 and, in 1980, flew by Saturn and its largest moon, Titan. Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026 Other spacecraft have crashed into moon before This is far from the first time a spacecraft has crashed into the moon at such a high speed. Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for moon
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Noun
  • There is a certain ease and flow to the conversation with your forevers.
    Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 17 May 2026
  • Miami trailed 1-0 fast, in the sixth minute, when the defense left Guilherme Biro unmarked for a downward header off a corner kick, gifting Biro the forever-history of the first goal in the new stadium.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Prime brokers Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America issued margin calls, and the fund ultimately sold its entire public equities book—longs and shorts alike—to a single unnamed buyer before Thursday’s open.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2026
  • So, the pressure went into the basis and sat there, with longs paid a fortune to hold the other side.
    Alice Liu, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Noun
  • Families The minimum age to sail with Windstar is 8, but this is not really a ship for kids – given that there are not any specific programs for them.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2026
  • People half his age with serious mountain experience struggled and marvelled at him leading them to the top.
    Andy Mitten, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026

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“Moon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moon. Accessed 12 Aug. 2026.

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