moon shot
- a variation of moonshot.
Example Sentences
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Imagine “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” with automatic weapons, or “The Honeymooners” with an actual moon shot, and you’ll still be underestimating the domestic rancor of the horror-comedy “Over Your Dead Body.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
But now the race is on for what people who grow and sell fruits and vegetables are calling a moon shot: breaking plastic’s stranglehold on produce.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
The fund manager said 39,000 "is not just a dream. It's achievable. It's not a moon shot."
From Reuters ● Jul. 5, 2023
"It could be our generation's equivalent of the moon shot," he says.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2022
In English, Miss Cowper was throwing us into the Introduction to Poetry Unit like it was as all-fired important as the moon shot.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
