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Recent Examples of solar plexus
The next morning, Jamie showed up and punched the manager in the solar plexus.
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Kerry Howley, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2022
Every so often, a performance hits you right in the solar plexus.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2022
The device worms its way into a patient’s chest through a three-quarter-inch incision in the solar plexus.
—Danielle Egan, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2011
While one album could hit you squarely in the solar plexus, by the next the conviction that Björk alone understood your crisis would have passed, never to return.
—Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
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Kerry Howley, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2022
Every so often, a performance hits you right in the solar plexus.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2022
The device worms its way into a patient’s chest through a three-quarter-inch incision in the solar plexus.
—Danielle Egan, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2011
While one album could hit you squarely in the solar plexus, by the next the conviction that Björk alone understood your crisis would have passed, never to return.
—Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
See All Example Sentences for solar plexus
Recent Examples of Synonyms for solar plexus
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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According to the sheriff's office, the dogs—a male chocolate lab and a young adult male shepherd mix—both had apparent gunshot wounds to their abdomens and chests, consistent with buckshot.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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As Trump approaches the restaurant, a girlfriend runs to greet her on Washington Avenue and excitedly touches her belly.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2025
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This can cause scaly, crusty skin on their head, neck, and belly; sores on their lips and eyelids; dry and cracked paw pads; and dental disease.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Solar plexus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solar%20plexus. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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