loins
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Sakai, who sells it wholesale, said that in recent years, his rates for Wagyu strip loins have fallen from $65 to $41 per pound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Tynecastle rubbed its eyes and then girded its loins.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
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
His prosperous-looking belly that used to thrust out so pugnaciously and intimidate folks, sagged like a load suspended from his loins.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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