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[guht] / gʌt /






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"You're altering the microbiome of your gut, and perhaps creating antibiotic resistant bacteria in your body that will fight off the drug therapy the next time you really need it," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Different foods affect your metabolism and gut microbiome differently.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The intense g-force hits in the first second of the race, as the cars go from stationary to 100mph, with a second gut punch following as the clutch fully engages about half-way through.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The result was the stark “4 Months,” which he describes as “a hit in the gut for many people.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

How could my gut be so wrong about this?

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

"I didn't write this novel with my head, but with my guts and my heart," he told AFP recently.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Conversations like this reminded me that people with little power are often attuned to the differences between what they hear from authorities and what they know in their guts.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

In the mouse experiment, none of the human Roseburia species permanently colonized the animals' guts.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

Tom Holland is officially the first “Hot Ones” guest to really spill his guts during a spicy interview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

My cousin shakes her head as if she’s been offered a plate of fish guts.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Garmin was best known for car GPS units, a business that smartphones gutted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

"We were all gutted when they took the season tickets away," he admitted.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Keith: Truly gutted for Gray as the players need to have a long hard look at themselves.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Like that gutted TV cabinet, his sad eyes are a window into the sensitive boy inside the grown man.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The centurion was watching with more interest than concern, as if he were examining one of his stupid gutted teddy bears.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

Damon’s Odysseus is numbed by the massacre of Troy’s civilians; Fiennes’ hates himself for leading the best men of Ithaca to their death, gutting his own community in the heedless destruction of another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

It brings the season to a close for Richie Murphy's side as they failed to make the United Rugby Championship play-offs in a gutting eight days for the Irish province.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

In all, Alico began gutting 53,000 citrus acres at the end of the 2025 harvest: 35 percent of Florida’s citrus production, condemned in one press release.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

“I know intimately how gutting it is to be a borrower, just sitting on the phone with a loan servicer as you try to navigate your options,” she said.

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026

“After you gut a few thousand chickens,” Galen said dryly, “you’ll either get really good at it, or you’ll stop gutting chickens.”

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan




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