MOONS Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

moons

noun

plural of moon

as in forevers

a long or seemingly long period of time we've been planning this big event for many moons

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Recent Examples of moons Examining pieces of it can explain how Mars' moons -- and possibly moons elsewhere -- came to be. — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026 Building on a legacy The mission to the Martian moons builds on Japan’s success in leading the Hayabusa and Hayabusa 2 missions, the world’s first two spacecraft to bring back pristine specimens from asteroids. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026 Launched on Monday aboard a 207-foot (63-meter) H3 rocket jointly developed by JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft will study the Red Planet’s two moons, Phobos and Deimos. — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026 Five of the world’s space agencies joined forces for the five-year mission that will attempt to land a robotic prospector plus a rover on Phobos, the larger and closer of Mars’ two pint-sized moons. — ABC News, 19 Oct. 2026 Scientists are counting on those samples, and other data collected during MMX's time around Mars, to answer a decades-old question surrounding the Martian moons' origins. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2026

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Those tush-pushes can’t beat you if The Winter Soldier’s facing third-and-forevers.

— Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2026

Definition of forevers

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Two women, ages 50 and 60, were killed and dozens of other people were wounded in a Russian strike on a market in Lozova, in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the regional military administration.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
The rooms With 50 keys, this adults-only hotel (hosting guests ages 16 and up) can be summed up as contemporary, cozy, and intimate.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026

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