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
Tessie was lying in bed when the faint purring or tingling in her navel ceased.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Like other rorqual whales, humpbacks’ throats expand in rubbery pleats reaching down to their navels.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2018
I found the Sparklers—flavored water—to be nauseating: full of artificial flavors that reminded me of gas-station fuzzy navels.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2015
I don’t spend much time thinking about other people’s navels.
From Time ● Mar. 6, 2015
The best additions to books are the ones that do less gazing at navels and more reporting of new, relevant material.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2015
Finally the sisters would cross themselves from their foreheads to their navels, and it would be over.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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