gut
Example Sentences
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The final line lands like a gut punch:
From Salon
They showed incredible guts to go to Anfield on Thursday and get a point, and they almost took all three.
From BBC
Without those tools or billions to manage, individual investors, derided by Wall Street as the “dumb money,” had to rely more on gut instinct and emotion.
When someone’s smart we say he has brains and if he’s brave he has guts, but gallantry isn’t assigned a human part and so must be a thing of the soul.
They follow the trawler, waiting for discarded fish heads and guts which fishermen throw into the sea as they sort through and process their catch.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
