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rib cage

NOUN
bosom
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For a typical flaw like a ball flight that is repeatedly low and left, PG1 might advise players to extend their elbow farther from their rib cage as part of their downswing.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

The front end, which was also a trunk, came up right to my rib cage, a contact point that would have chagrined any high school football coach as bad tackling form: too high.

From Slate Jun. 22, 2025

On March 9, a line-drive comebacker drilled Treinen in the right side of his rib cage.

From Los Angeles Times May 10, 2024

Taylor was hospitalized with an injury to his rib cage.

From Washington Times Oct. 30, 2023

She touched my left side and rested her hand on my rib cage, midway down the line of the surgery scar.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin




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