navel
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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
Lose, though, and it's navel gazing time again.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2024
Every year, the navel orangeworm eats through roughly 2% of California’s almonds before they can make it to grocery store shelves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024
Case in point: A month after the double date, Lexi was stabbing needles into the fat around her navel, ripening her eggs for extraction.
From Slate ● May 7, 2024
The anger is rumbling somewhere behind my navel.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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
Hollywood's Hays production codes allowed two-piece gowns but prohibited navels on-screen.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 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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