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stomach

[stuhm-uhk] / ˈstʌm ək /




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Whether that path eventually ends with an annuity will depend on whether the retirement industry and consumers find a bridge to get the protection people want into a product they can stomach.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Samples tested found norovirus, campylobacter, shigella and "other pathogens that cause stomach cramps and diarrhoea", officials said.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

In Eleanor’s camera, Sofia has that same impish desire, taking on a film so gargantuan that she can’t possibly understand that her eyes are bigger than her stomach.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

The situation that we wanted to sustain throughout the season was she’s not doing these things because she got shot, her stomach hurts and she’s mad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

When I give up on sleep and emerge from my room, it’s with hunger pangs in my stomach.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

He wanted it to be easier to clean up when players dug so deep that they emptied their stomachs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Feeding deer may also increase the risk of them ingesting plastic, which blocks their stomachs and causes malnutrition.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Though gone from the stomachs of people in the industrialised world, the bacteria has been detected among tribes in Africa and South America, Sarhan said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

In Colorado, Kimberly Jones has grown her herd of goats from 25 to 250 in seven years, deploying their efficient teeth, hooves and stomachs to clear undergrowth to stem the spread of flames.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

We squeeze through the fence one by one and then, crawling on our stomachs, we wriggle after her across the field.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Sam Harris and his wife stomached a high mortgage rate to close on a house in Georgia in April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

The practice is stomached by managers who want to protect their actual pitchers from overuse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025

McDonald's engineered a relatively smooth sale to Govor for an undisclosed fee, but stomached a non-cash charge of $1.4 billion and forfeited $300 million in annual operating income.

From Reuters ● Dec. 16, 2022

In earlier years, teams stomached just about anything from the head coach so long as he kept the victories coming.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2018

And the royalty would be a weak stomached lot if they gained not even extra corn for all their sceptre waving, and royal nods;––eh?

From The Flute of the Gods by Marah Ellis Ryan

Inventory has improved slightly as some homeowners have lost patience and decided to move even if it means stomaching high rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Yet many workers aren’t so sure; they’re having a hard time stomaching the uncertainty.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

And after stomaching a bombardment of body blows, the Huskies were unable to answer, producing back-to-back punts in the second half.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2023

“And, with transit not given the priority and service to get Angelenos to many destinations reliably, many are left stomaching higher gas prices instead.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

The local returns of dead rats were not made by the bills of mortality, but by the bills of fare: it was getting rid of a nuisance by the unheard-of process of stomaching a nuisance!

From Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Wilkie Collins


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