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moh

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Attachment to the transient material world, which hinders the soul's search for its ultimate goal and is therefore one of the Five Evils.

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The theme of imperiled innocence was also found in the attractively mounted Malaysian film Sham moh (At the End of Daybreak; Ho Yuhang).

"You?" She looked at me and sniffed, as though I were covered with moh.

Then in Twi, he welcomed his Ghanaian congregants to the prayer call: "Yeh mah moh nee nah aquabah".

The terms – a type of Chinese breakfast and an expression of delight, respectively – enter, along with phrases such as "dai pai dong", "ang moh" and "chilli crab" (an open-air food stall, a light-skinned person, and a regional delicacy).

The proprietors, taking pity on the ang moh (foreigner — literally, "red head"), presented me with a straw, to the amusement of my fellow patrons.

I had intended to eat my last meal in Singapore alone, but the sight of a lone ang moh, struggling to understand the handwritten signs, and the possibility that I might fail to fully appreciate what I was about to eat, was apparently too much for them.

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"Chemotherapy," for example, comes out something like this: keh-moh-THER-peh, with a chuckle embedded in the middle.

Moboglyphics (moh-boh-gliff-ixx) noun.

And, on August 24th, he added almost three hundred million acres to the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, northwest of Hawaii; the additional acres made Papahānaumokuākea (pronounced "Papa-ha-now-moh-koo-ah-kay-ah") the largest ecological preserve on the planet.

Mr. Monette (pronounced moh-NAY) worked as a volunteer for the Suozzi administration for nearly a year before being hired last November to run a newly created Department of Public Safety and Security.

For the uninitiated, a bris is a Jewish ritual, the circumcision performed by a mohel (pronounced either MOY-ul or MOH-ul) on the eighth day after a boy is born (or later, but never before) and the occasion when the baby also receives his Hebrew name.

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