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Treaty of Westphalia (1648)

glass ceiling

backside part of the shamisen's neck where it meets the body

brief moment

hindsight is 20-20 (even for a fool)

cover-up

transfer information (e.g. changing trains)

immunodeficiency

asbestosis

sphincter muscle of the pupil

matching-halves smartphone wallpapers (for lovers)

being torn to pieces

Celebes crested macaque (Macaca nigra)

elastic bandage

petrochemicals

with rice stuck on one's face

raked gravel waves (in a rock garden)

carbonated alcohols

moon palace of the Hindu god Chandra

to lead

12th anniversary of one's death

magnetic field intensity

to speak unclearly

magnetic meridian

monopsony

secretly slitting one's belly (and only eventually revealing one's mortal wound) (in kabuki, bunraku, etc.)

progressive tax rate

loris (esp. a slow loris)

one's last resort

half backstitch