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
And navel oranges went from $1.29 a pound to $.99.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025
A thick line marks a healed cut from just under the man’s neck all the way down to his navel.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 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
But when they held it up to Laurie, the sweater reached only to her navel and the leggings went to just below her knees.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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