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[bel-ee] / ˈbɛl i /


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Even if this $350,000 represents 10% of your portfolio, that 10% could still have a meaningful impact if the investment goes belly up.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Although reducing visible belly fat may appeal to patients for cosmetic reasons, researchers emphasize that the potential medical benefits could be more important.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

On social media, influencers and fitness experts garner millions of views and likes on videos blaming cortisol for an array of concerns from belly fat to hair loss to “moon face.”

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

On Wednesday, the late-night “Gutfeld!” co-host shared a clip on Instagram in which she surprised the audience with a twirl and lift of her blouse, revealing a pregnant belly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

As she crawled farther out into the mud, Rowan was pulled forward, until he, too, was lying on his belly across the pathway.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

The Venus figurines crafted in Stone Age Europe depict women with enormous bellies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

"This is the first evidence that our bellies expand with age due to the APCs' high output of new fat cells."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 27, 2026

I enjoy having their heads on my lap and my hands on their bellies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026

It’s when we make it a point to request a complimentary dessert when we go out to eat, regardless of how full our bellies may be.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026

It didn’t taste as good as rice or cassava, but it was healthier and filled our bellies.

From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince

I checked in and bellied up to the hotel bar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

You can see some of the surprising new finds on the citizen science project Redmap, such as sightings of the tropical yellow bellied sea snake in Tasmanian waters.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2022

Later, at Nick’s Cove, a local restaurant with a pier that stretches over the bay, Elliott chatted with a woman who had bellied up to the bar to watch a baseball game.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

She also was fed rotting capelin — described as soft bellied and smelling bad — despite the attending vet’s objections.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2021

The man bellied up to the bar, and conversations around him quieted a notch or two.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Ambrogi has since put on a mask, but he refuses to prevent customers from bellying up to the bar in defiance of state rules strictly limiting indoor dining.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2020

My favorite San Francisco poet these days is August Kleinzahler, who often writes about bellying up to a bar.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2019

Two weeks after the Health Department delivered it’s verdict, customers were bellying up to the restaurant’s polished wooden counters and booths as usual on Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2017

A steady stream of moviegoers bellying up to the concession stand for a brew seems unlikely.

From Washington Times ● May 3, 2017

Gerald Black, at his own request, was supervising the mushrooming wooden partitions that were springing up in a bellying circle on the vaulted third floor of Radiation Building 2.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov




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