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stomach

[stuhm-uhk] / ˈstʌm ək /




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The necropsy found that highly pathogenic avian influenza was the “primary underlying cause of her decline,” and that the infection caused a severe stomach ulcer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

"I started to have the worst stomach pains – like a stabbing pain in the middle of my abdomen," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

So let’s see who’s got the stomach for it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

“The short-term volatility—you’ve just got to have the stomach for it,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

My stomach flips and my mouth goes dry.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

"We've seen evidence previously of fulmars eating plastic and they've been found in their stomachs, so it is highly likely we could come across the same in some cases," Turner added.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

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

Interestingly, the number of Chinook and coho salmon found in pike stomachs dropped over the past decade.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

If cows ate too many, their stomachs swelled, and sometimes they died before the doctor could come to help.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

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

And the Pac-12 championship defeat to the Utes could be easily stomached due to Williams’ hamstring injury which limited his transcendence for one half.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2023

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

The players still went to practice every day, still pulled on the heavy pads, stomached every loss that brought all kinds of pain.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2017

Valdicampo, who for the honour of having a Duke sleep beneath his roof would have stomached improprieties far more flagrant, belittled the matter and dismissed it.

From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Investing in an IPO means stomaching the potential for volatility in early trading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

While Ms Bannister is stomaching her new bill, and Ms Martin is going without healthcare, others are resorting to different government programmes to get their coverage.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026

A heavy reliance on three-true-outcome hitters — players who hit home runs and accumulate walks while stomaching a once-nauseating amount of strikeouts — became the preeminent offensive formula to win regular-season games for different reasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

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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