armpit
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Karen Piazza, a 45-year old teacher in Brooklyn, paid $8,100 for the procedure, which left her with a small scar under each armpit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
More surgical options have emerged too, such as smaller incisions in the chest, or a robotic surgery that involves a smaller incision on a person’s side near the armpit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
“He lived in Bakersfield, which is the armpit of California,” Hankel says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
Eve Ross, who is a nursery worker in Kent, went to her doctor after she discovered a small lump in her armpit in January 2024.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
Two Aunts hauled her a wav, a hand under each armpit.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
As time went on, she noticed soreness in the glands of her neck and armpits and a general sense of not quite feeling herself.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
You’re either stuck to a vinyl-clad seat or grabbing up for a handrail and trying to direct your face away from the armpits to your left and right.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
FARGO, N.D.—Oak Reile was delivering a pallet of washer fluid, cigarettes and candy to a local convenience store in 2020 when he slipped and fell, breaking two vertebrae and paralyzing him from the armpits down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
And what most people remember about their performance is that Paula Cole didn’t shave her armpits, resulting in months of fodder for late-night comedians.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
And then Colin felt angels lifting him by the armpits, pulling him toward their home in the sky, and he felt light and free.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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