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navel

[nay-vuhl] / ˈneɪ vəl /
ADJECTIVE
of the navel
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Silvana Armani, the Italian designer's niece, offered black-and-white dresses and ensembles, with necklines sometimes plunging all the way to the navel.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

"The one here - it's brighter," Dozier told the BBC, noting the fresh sweet navel oranges in his basket.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

I had the kombu-cured Japanese hamachi with navel orange, capers, chili, and kohlrabi—bright, balanced, and just a little spicy.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2026

If you get a stud in your navel or a little tattoo on your ankle, you aren’t likely to look back later and kick yourself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

The place on her stomach where a navel should have been and was not.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

And one of the things that the media loves to do is gaze at their navels for hours on end by a tweet from Donald Trump or from me or from anybody else.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2016

I found the Sparklers—flavored water—to be nauseating: full of artificial flavors that reminded me of gas-station fuzzy navels.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2015

We are not interested in people searching for meaning in their navels.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 15, 2015

I don’t spend much time thinking about other people’s navels.

From Time ● Mar. 6, 2015

Finally the sisters would cross themselves from their foreheads to their navels, and it would be over.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd




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