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- noun Plural form of
mooring . - noun nautical A place or places where a
vessel may be made fast
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Examples
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In Fugitive Days Ayers uses the word moorings on two occasions, both times figuratively but precisely, as with, “in time words lost their moorings and floated away.”
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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In Fugitive Days Ayers uses the word moorings on two occasions, both times figuratively but precisely, as with, “in time words lost their moorings and floated away.”
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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With this object, the caddis worm cuts its moorings, that is to say, the rootlets which keep the cylinder fixed, or else the half-severed leaf of pond weed on which the cone-shaped bag has come into being.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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After the battling for 20 minutes, the coaches took the nets off the moorings, which is always the signal for players that their legs are about to burn.
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After the battling for 20 minutes, the coaches took the nets off the moorings, which is always the signal for players that their legs are about to burn.
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After the battling for 20 minutes, the coaches took the nets off the moorings, which is always the signal for players that their legs are about to burn.
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He then cited Edmund Burke, William F. Buckley, and Ronald Reagan as the "moorings" of the GOP.
Keep the Change 2009
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Thankful, although she kept the disappointment to herself, the fact that the captain had not shifted what he called his "moorings" to her establishment.
Thankful's Inheritance Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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As a rant from someone who's admittedly and rather amusingly lost his "moorings" (and is ecstatic about it), however, Joe Bageant's offering is certainly no worse than most.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Joe Bageant, AlterNet 2009
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When the loading was completed, she sank at her moorings with only parts of her masts visible.
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