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On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of them Black, departed Beaufort, South Carolina, on three gunboats.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
Cap off the day at the iconic Full Moon Party on Koh Phangan, where fire shows, neon body paint, and moonlit dancing take over the shoreline.
—Ashlee Marie Preston, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Want to take a deeper dive into the moonlit landscape of our rocky companion?
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 May 2025
That opportunity arrives once Romeo and Juliet meet cute in the moonlit night market — neither of them realizing who the other is, despite them both sporting their family’s gang colors.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 8 May 2025
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
Cap off the day at the iconic Full Moon Party on Koh Phangan, where fire shows, neon body paint, and moonlit dancing take over the shoreline.
—Ashlee Marie Preston, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Want to take a deeper dive into the moonlit landscape of our rocky companion?
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 May 2025
That opportunity arrives once Romeo and Juliet meet cute in the moonlit night market — neither of them realizing who the other is, despite them both sporting their family’s gang colors.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 8 May 2025
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“Moonlit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moonlit. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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moonlit
adjective
moon·lit
ˈmün-ˌlit 
: lighted by the moon
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