navel
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If you get a stud in your navel or a little tattoo on your ankle, you aren’t likely to look back later and kick yourself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Lose, though, and it's navel gazing time again.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2024
The miraculous orange was renamed the Washington navel orange.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2024
Case in point: A month after the double date, Lexi was stabbing needles into the fat around her navel, ripening her eggs for extraction.
From Slate • May 7, 2024
“It’d have to be the size of a volleyball. Your navel is huge. I saw Okra walk across your stomach one time and disappear from sight when he hit your bellybutton.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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