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
"As I sit here now, all day long that was an illegal blow. It's not about the belt line it's wear the navel is," Warren said.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025
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
It turns out though that the answer is far easier than the half-baked solutions that seem to make it into the navel gazing podcasts online or the “think pieces” we see in some papers.
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2024
All day long she sat over a hole in the ground, the omphalos, the navel of the earth, breathing petrochemical fumes escaping from underneath.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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