navel
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Silvana Armani, the Italian designer's niece, offered black-and-white dresses and ensembles, with necklines sometimes plunging all the way to the navel.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
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
"As I sit here now, all day long that was an illegal blow. It's not about the belt line it's wear the navel is," Warren said.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025
And navel oranges went from $1.29 a pound to $.99.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
A faded scar ran down his stomach to his navel, marring the smooth tan skin.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
Paint that survived was sometimes concealed in recesses: between strands of hair, or inside navels, nostrils, and mouths.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2018
Like other rorqual whales, humpbacks’ throats expand in rubbery pleats reaching down to their navels.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2018
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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