as in stomach
the part of the body between the chest and the pelvis tickled the toddler's tummy

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Recent Examples of tummy The leggings are high-waisted and cover my entire tummy as a plus-size woman. Abbey Stone, SELF, 28 Jan. 2025 Original Price: $79.99 Sale Price: $63.99 (20% off) Tummy Time Mirror Toys Support your baby’s development and have fun at the same time with these tummy time mirror toys, now 23% off. Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025 Blissful Diary baby play gym mat: on sale for $39.99 Original price: $44.99 Give your baby a place for tummy time with a Blissful Diary baby play gym mat. Christopher Murray, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2025 Russell shared the experience on TikTok after struggling to find information about how tummy tucks impact tattoos. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tummy
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Noun
  • Wiggins missed one game due to a stomach illness, five games due to a sprained right ankle, two games due to a left lower leg contusion and six straight games due to a recent hamstring issue.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Read more Chemistry What Mom Finds in Her Teen Daughter's Room Shocks Internet: 'Dangerous' This includes both ingredients in food and natural substances in the body that can trigger bitter taste sensors found outside the mouth, like in the stomach or other organs.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The wasps’ strange abdomens each had three flaps with small spikes and trigger hairs, similar to the motion-detecting hairs on a Venus flytrap.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The wasps, which lived almost 99 million years ago, might have launched backward at their insect targets, then grasped them within their Venus flytrap-like abdomens.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Surprisingly, Olaf pats his brother on the belly with his paw, reciprocating his love for the very first time since his arrival.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
  • About an hour later, a sharp, intense pain in my belly startled me out of my sleep.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 15 Apr. 2025

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“Tummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tummy. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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