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crescent

[kres-uhnt] / ˈkrɛs ənt /




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Expect, perhaps, a crescent moon in pajamas to be a new favorite.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

People living with sickle cell disease have red blood cells that are crescent shaped due to a gene mutation.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Think crescent dough wrapped around ribbons of honey ham and Swiss, each ball bathed in a poppy-seed-studded glaze of butter, Dijon, Worcestershire, and a hint of brown sugar, then baked until puffed, golden, and gleaming.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

"This is done only as a precautionary measure, but it is appropriate that we are at a crescent sense of alertness just at the moment for the time being," he said.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

Far away, maybe ten miles or more, there was a great burning, but between it and the Riders lines of fire blazed in a vast crescent, at the nearest point less than a league distant.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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