loins

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Gird your loins, The Devil Wears Prada 2 is due to be released in cinemas on Friday 1 May 2026.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025

Then they’re cleaned by hand and the loins are separated from the belly before the meat is tightly hand-packed in cans and jars.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2023

“As if I were not her very own child,” Harry, the novel’s sole narrator, says, “as if I were not the flesh of her loins, as if I were instead some foreign pathogenic prototype.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022

Subway lists its tuna as being "flaked tuna in brine" and maintains that it's FDA-regulated importers "use only 100% wild-caught tuna from whole round, twice cleaned, skipjack tuna loins."

From Salon • Jul. 16, 2022

The gods forced Loki onto the three great stones: they put one of the stones beneath his shoulders, one under his loins, and one beneath his knees.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman