crescent
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"The thin crescent on approach and the nearly 'full Mars' view after we fly past create opportunities for the imaging team for both great calibration observations as well as just plain beautiful photos."
From Science Daily • May 11, 2026
The crescent Earth — our oasis holding everything we cherish, now just a speck in the infinite blackness — seemed to kiss the jagged lunar surface.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
Families and astronomers gathered at a site known locally as "top of the world" on Gaisby Lane, Shipley, to try to see a slither of the new crescent moon.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 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
He cut the holes in shapes of windows, and little stars, and crescent moons, and circles.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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