belly
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Even if this $350,000 represents 10% of your portfolio, that 10% could still have a meaningful impact if the investment goes belly up.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Although reducing visible belly fat may appeal to patients for cosmetic reasons, researchers emphasize that the potential medical benefits could be more important.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
On social media, influencers and fitness experts garner millions of views and likes on videos blaming cortisol for an array of concerns from belly fat to hair loss to “moon face.”
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
Then, breaking the tension with his trademark belly laugh, he admitted his problem was attachment to Buddhism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
I wondered what the bulge in its belly was.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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"They have big bellies, they can't run," a protester told reporters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Atlantic puffins are the harlequins of the sea, colorful as a rainforest parrot—black backs, white bellies, quad-colored beaks and intensely orange feet and legs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
"This is the first evidence that our bellies expand with age due to the APCs' high output of new fat cells."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 27, 2026
This is his magical Sunday where time bends, L.A. traffic doesn’t exist and bellies are never too full.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
She kept them there for a long time but took them down one by one so that, as she promised, we ate like Americans when hunger cramped our bellies.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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I checked in and bellied up to the hotel bar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
You can see some of the surprising new finds on the citizen science project Redmap, such as sightings of the tropical yellow bellied sea snake in Tasmanian waters.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2022
Bikers bellied up to bars and packed into rock shows.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2021
Other attendees, more interested in topping the tale of the cowpoke on the next stool, were bellied up to the bar.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2018
He knelt, balding and kettle- bellied, murmuring, "An honor, an honor."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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My favorite San Francisco poet these days is August Kleinzahler, who often writes about bellying up to a bar.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2019
Overheard from a gaggle of White House reporters bellying up for glasses of cab: “I needed this — it’s been that kind of day.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2019
Two weeks after the Health Department delivered it’s verdict, customers were bellying up to the restaurant’s polished wooden counters and booths as usual on Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2017
A steady stream of moviegoers bellying up to the concession stand for a brew seems unlikely.
From Washington Times ● May 3, 2017
They might have frightened her with their big bellying laughter and hot tears and full bear hugs.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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