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as in stomachs
an enlarged or bulging abdomen
worked hard to get rid of his belly in time to attend his class reunion
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as in abdomens
the part of the body between the chest and the pelvis
a baby with a round little belly
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as in hearts
the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions
in my belly I knew that he wasn't telling the truth, as the details of his story just didn't add up
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as in protrudes
to extend outward beyond a usual point
the sails slowly bellied as the wind picked up
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Recent Examples of bellies
Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2026
Jared Towers, the executive director of Bay Cetology, a research institute in Alert Bay, British Columbia, told the outlet that the group of orcas rubbing their bellies on the rocks comes from the A5 pod, which is composed of three different families.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
Charlotte restaurants work hard, day in and day out, to nourish our bellies — and our spirits — with all kinds of food.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 29 Dec. 2025
This delicious recipe comes together in just 25 minutes, but the satisfied bellies of all those at your supper table will never know it.
—Emma Ashe, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2025
The square heads overflowed on all sides to create love handles and sagging bellies.
—Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
Many shoppers will be heading out to stand in line with full bellies after their Thanksgiving feasts and holiday wish lists in hand today for Black Friday.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 28 Nov. 2025
Two actors are wriggling across the stage on their bellies.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2025
Air freight is carried not only on cargo planes, but also in the bellies of passenger aircraft.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2025
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Pairs of multibar angelfish, with their zebra-like stripes and bright yellow bellies, darted across a field of silvery staghorn coral.
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Foodies, get your stomachs and wallets ready.—
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Seeing the opportunity, Wendy's hopes to step in and fill the chicken tender-sized hole in spectators' stomachs.—
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Starting in 2013 more than a hundred thousand women received calls about the urgent need to have surgically implanted pelvic mesh removed from their lower abdomens.—
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The stingers they are equipped with can be up to about a quarter-inch (6 mm) in length and inject a painful venom – which is stored in large quantities in their abdomens – into their victims.—
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What the museum dream team did not see was the pain in our hearts about this jail.—
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My message this week is about not letting our hearts be troubled, and Jesus is the way.—
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Baleen is a specialized type of bone that protrudes from the jaws like teeth and is used to filter small critters from the ocean water to feed.—
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The skating ribbon at Maggie Daley Park in Chicago is an artificial trail that snakes a quarter-mile around towering climbing walls, with glittering skyscrapers for a backdrop.—
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Englewood is home to Cedar Point Environmental Park along Lemon Bay, where pine flatwoods cover most of the park, and Oyster Creek Regional Park, where a boardwalk snakes through tidal mangroves, allowing visitors to enjoy bird-watching.—
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And which corporations or corporate partnerships, which are such a huge part, of course, of the Fallout universe, may have been colluding and why?—
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Profits flowed primarily to large corporations and foreign interests, leaving long-term economic scars.—
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Finally, the news came that at least 56 souls had been killed in the strikes.—
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Trump has always been a mirror for other people’s souls, an X-ray revealing America’s dysfunction.—
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According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a brain aneurysm is a weakened area in an artery that bulges outward and fills with blood.—
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“Bellies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bellies. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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