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stomach

[stuhm-uhk] / ˈstʌm ək /




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"I started to have the worst stomach pains – like a stabbing pain in the middle of my abdomen," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Yuan decided to surreptitiously install a camera at work, and what it captured made her stomach curdle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

So let’s see who’s got the stomach for it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

“The short-term volatility—you’ve just got to have the stomach for it,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

I feel as empty as my stomach does.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The research was prompted over concerns birds could "starve" if they confuse the nurdles for food and fill their stomachs.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

He wanted it to be easier to clean up when players dug so deep that they emptied their stomachs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Though gone from the stomachs of people in the industrialised world, the bacteria has been detected among tribes in Africa and South America, Sarhan said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

Interestingly, the number of Chinook and coho salmon found in pike stomachs dropped over the past decade.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

Little black babies clung to their mothers’ stomachs while older, brown ones rode on their mothers’ backs.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Venture-capital firms have stomached vast losses in part because OpenAI and Anthropic are among the fastest-growing businesses in the history of tech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026

The practice is stomached by managers who want to protect their actual pitchers from overuse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025

McDonald's engineered a relatively smooth sale to Govor for an undisclosed fee, but stomached a non-cash charge of $1.4 billion and forfeited $300 million in annual operating income.

From Reuters ● Dec. 16, 2022

If they had, I could have stomached it more,” said Jill Roberts, who co-owns a wine bar in downtown Helena, Mont. “It came out of left field.”

From New York Times ● May 15, 2021

But now that it was to be a battle for the mountain men as well as for Martin Harrison and for himself, it could be better stomached.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford

Yet many workers aren’t so sure; they’re having a hard time stomaching the uncertainty.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Investing in an IPO means stomaching the potential for volatility in early trading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

While Ms Bannister is stomaching her new bill, and Ms Martin is going without healthcare, others are resorting to different government programmes to get their coverage.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026

A heavy reliance on three-true-outcome hitters — players who hit home runs and accumulate walks while stomaching a once-nauseating amount of strikeouts — became the preeminent offensive formula to win regular-season games for different reasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

At this moment, one of the enemy, who had been annoying us from a thicket some thirty paces from where I stood, not stomaching the grape, made a movement from his hiding-place.

From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by John Shipp




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