gut
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Before presenting to their boards, the thesis goes, founders often need a trusted third party they can call for a gut check: you know, like friends and family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Researchers suggest that slowed intestinal movement in these patients could potentially produce similar changes in gut fermentation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Others link UPFs to changes in our gut microbiome.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
So is Ozempic’s active ingredient, which mimics the gut hormone GLP-1 to control blood sugar and curb appetite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
And if I’d asked my gut for advice on how to handle Zara, I knew my gut would answer: Mila, are you crazy?
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
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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
In the mouse experiment, none of the human Roseburia species permanently colonized the animals' guts.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
England began with the chance to bat themselves into a strong position, yet were left in peril by a Black Caps' opening burst that ripped the guts out of the home middle-order.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Usually, Camille is chatting about who asked who to homecoming while Andre complains about the assistant lacrosse coach who hates his guts or the sea monster he can’t kill in whatever video game he’s playing.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Betty Matheson, 78, was forced out of her privately-rented home and was unable to return for several months while the house was gutted, rewired and restored.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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
They bought the site after it was gutted by a previous fire in 2021.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
"I've never seen scenes like this in Britain, where you just see a whole house gutted, smouldering," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The little boy was huddled against the wood drying rack where hung row upon row of gutted fish, all as stiff as boards.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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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
They predict gutting cuts to women’s teams and Olympic sports, a rollback that’s already begun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
It brings the season to a close for Richie Murphy's side as they failed to make the United Rugby Championship play-offs in a gutting eight days for the Irish province.
From BBC ● May 22, 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
As I'm gutting and skinning it, I notice something else.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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