moonstruck

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Recent Examples of moonstruck Musk was certainly behaving like a moonstruck cultist. Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moonstruck
Adjective
  • Malinauskas opened the second box, which contained a Bell & Ross Regulateur with a big, moony face and a stainless-steel bezel.
    Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Yet, Bronson still stood out, with his alternately creepy and moony portrayal of a man biding his time dating Wood’s mother while vying for the younger woman’s attention.
    Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
Adjective
  • Golden hour provides the perfect lighting for those dreamy bluebonnet portraits.
    Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Love Language is a return to classic rom-com form, with heart and humor, as well as a talented ensemble cast that beautifully brings Power’s script to life against a dreamy Chicago backdrop.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • From the satisfying click of a CD player to the quirky trends that defined the decade, here are some nostalgic things from 1996 that could genuinely use a revival in 2026.
    Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2026
  • In fact, they are designed to feel warm, nostalgic and personal.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • It had supposedly been made in the nineteen-forties, for an Italian countess or an English lady, then scrapped, and afterward either smuggled out of the workroom by a starry-eyed seamstress or, with the atelier head’s approval, given to one of the in-house models.
    Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
  • On Tuesday night, as the NFL world reeled with the Maxx Crosby news and the NBA was starry-eyed at Bam Adebayo’s 83-point game, the rest of us were watching Team Italy embarrass the good ol’ US of A with an 8-6 win in the World Baseball Classic.
    Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The time piece was a sentimental detail, having belonged to Princess Diana, and which her late mother-in-law wore many times for her own public engagements.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Premiering the first of eight episodes on Sunday, March 22, The Comeback’s shaggy, despairing, hilarious, and sometimes baldly sentimental third season spends its first two episodes running through all the horsemen of the Hollywood-pocalypse.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026

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“Moonstruck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moonstruck. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.

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