gullet
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Regularly drinking beverages like tea and coffee at very hot temperatures increases the risk of cancer of the food pipe or gullet, known as oesophageal cancer, UK research suggests.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Since the flare from J2245+3743 is still visible, astronomers believe the black hole is in mid-meal, "like a fish only halfway down the whale's gullet," Graham says.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2025
The birds swallowed the franks whole, straight down the gullet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
There’s even an Easter egg homage to a scene in the 1962 original, in which Kong jams a tree trunk down Godzilla’s gullet.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2021
He’d had to bring them up—along with a pouch of chloropellets and an extra set of lockpicks he’d forced down his gullet in case of emergency—every other hour to keep from digesting them.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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