gullet
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Since the flare from J2245+3743 is still visible, astronomers believe the black hole is in mid-meal, "like a fish only halfway down the whale's gullet," Graham says.
From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2025
That would be the mass equivalent of 370 suns a year disappearing down a cosmic gullet 11 billion years ago at the dawn of time.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2024
Oesophageal cancer is a cancer that's found anywhere in the oesophagus, sometimes called the gullet or food pipe, which connects your mouth to your stomach.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2023
The birds swallowed the franks whole, straight down the gullet.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2022
The sight of his human face inside the wolf’s gullet struck the children as hilarious; all three of them burst out laughing.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
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