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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of moonshot in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of moonshot in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of moonshot in a Sentence

  1. President Barack Obama:

    Last year, Vice President Biden said that with a new moonshot, America can cure cancer. Last month, he worked with this Congress to give scientists at the National Institutes of Health the strongest resources they've had in over a decade, tonight, I'm announcing a new national effort to get it done.

  2. Joe Biden:

    To address inequities, we can ensure prevention, detection, treatment, reach patients in urban, rural, suburban and tribal communities, so they have equal access to cancer diagnostics, therapeutics, and clinical trials, as part of the supercharge moonshot, I'll use my authority as president to increase funding, to … break logjams, to speed breakthroughs.

  3. Eric Talley:

    I view this as SoftBank's moonshot to get WeWork back on all fours.

  4. Kensington Palace:

    Just as the Moonshot that (U.S. President) John F. Kennedy proposed in the 1960s catalysed new technology such as the MRI scanner and satellite dishes, the Earthshots aim to launch their own tidal wave of ambition and innovation.

  5. White House:

    In the selections of Dr. Alondra Nelson and Dr. Francis Collins, President Biden has doubled down on science, the selections are responsive to the dual importance of a strong OSTP that can drive science and technology solutions to our greatest challenges -- and the very specific attention President Biden wants to give to the creation of a new ARPA-H research and discovery agency, the building of support for a Cancer Moonshot 2.0, the search for a new head of NIH, and the broad advisory work of PCAST.


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