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navel

[ney-vuhl] / ˈneɪ vəl /
ADJECTIVE
of the 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

He approached a navel orange tree with some scorched branches.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 20, 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

So mostly I just vegetate in the basement and pick my navel, to quote Grim, Mr. Belly Button Lint himself.

From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick

And one of the things that the media loves to do is gaze at their navels for hours on end by a tweet from Donald Trump or from me or from anybody else.

From Washington Post Jan. 5, 2016

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

Joel McHale's other gig, the self-loathing, self-abusing survey of trash TV—in which his Community co-stars dropped by and in-jokes disappeared up their own navels with a tickle.

From Slate Dec. 29, 2011

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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