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  • n  the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail
  • n  the time at which the Moon is at first or last quarter when half its face is illuminated

  • During the Andropov era, the KGB's foreign directorate moved out of the Dzerzhinsky Square headquarters to a large, modern, half-moon-shaped office building on the Moscow Ring Road.
  • Your ankles are strapped into half-moon-shaped foot cuffs lined with canvas.
  • It was anyone's bet who faced a more dire risk, the hunted in terrorist cells or the hunters in humvees, along with whom I was riding under a half-moon.

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