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[guht] / gʌt /






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The companion study in Nature Metabolism addressed another important question: Are gut bacteria really responsible for producing all the metabolites traditionally attributed to them?

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

The researchers found that these indigestible proteins, which they call Prif, can reach the gut microbiome and serve as material for bacterial metabolism.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

They cooperate with plant fiber to change how gut bacteria process nutrients, shifting their activity toward the production of beneficial phenol metabolites.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

Two metabolites derived from phenylalanine, phenylpropionate and hippuric acid, are associated with healthy body weight and better gut health.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

I try to make the word come out again, up from my gut, more loudly and forcefully, like a wall against any disbelief they might have.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

The acquisition expands CBRE’s business of delivering the guts of data centers, reflecting real estate’s growing reliance on the tech cycle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

"I didn't write this novel with my head, but with my guts and my heart," he told AFP recently.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Conversations like this reminded me that people with little power are often attuned to the differences between what they hear from authorities and what they know in their guts.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

With rare exception, “Primetime” doesn’t have the guts to look its predators in the eye.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

And maybe, one day, a thousand years in the future when we all lived on Mars and could shuttle back and forth like civilized people, I’d have the guts to text them first.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Garmin was best known for car GPS units, a business that smartphones gutted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Acaster, meanwhile, reflected: "I'm gutted to not be a faithful anymore, I don't like lying. But if I don't join them, they'll kill me."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

"True Blue Noel Gallagher" is on the cover of the Sunday People, saying he is "gutted for fans" over the Man City financial rule "breaches".

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Like that gutted TV cabinet, his sad eyes are a window into the sensitive boy inside the grown man.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The big top is being gutted before the audience has even left it.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

"It is a bit gutting, because I was so excited until they announced the new rules coming in, it's hard to believe how big of a change it is going to be," he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

In “Tin Can Coast,” Joseph Ogilvy explores the poetry and the beauty of this coastal world, the marine creatures who live within it, as well as the practices that are gutting it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Damon’s Odysseus is numbed by the massacre of Troy’s civilians; Fiennes’ hates himself for leading the best men of Ithaca to their death, gutting his own community in the heedless destruction of another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

“When you actually look at the totality of what’s being put forward, we are seeing a total gutting of a resource base,” she told NOTUS.

From Slate ● May 2, 2026

I remembered gutting fish with Sookie the day we talked about why Mom liked dissecting things.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen


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