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visceral
adjective as in instinctive
Example Sentences
Instead, it boils down to a more basic, visceral, “us-versus-them” kind of partisanship that’s very difficult for a single politician to undo.
It’s visceral fat, however, that you should be concerned about.
Unlike belly fat, visceral fat is “metabolically active,” says endocrinologist Reshmi Srinath, director of the Weight and Metabolism Management Program at Mount Sinai Hospital.
It prompts your body to build lean muscle and shrink visceral fat more effectively than a slow-burn endurance workout.
With that spotlight comes the visceral fear that they could be next.
The scenes between Johansson and Adam Pearson, a man with neurofibromatosis, are some of the most delicate and visceral this year.
Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.
JUDNICK: My reaction is so visceral that I immediately, like you, isolate myself so I can breathe.
That single chapter, the most visceral and moving part of The Power Broker, took Caro six months to research and write.
With that tape, we “knew” what had happened in a far more visceral, powerful way than words alone could convey.
There was no true cohesion, no depth, nothing except a web of surface reactions, stretched across automatic visceral movements.
The pleuro-peritoneal cavity is first distinctly formed at a time when only two visceral clefts are present.
The visceral clefts necessarily divide it into separate parts.
The embryo from which the section was taken possessed five visceral clefts, but no trace of external gills.
In the region of the head it exhibits on each side a slight bulging outwards, the rudiment of the first visceral cleft.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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