as in bellies
an enlarged or bulging abdomen Santa is depicted as a white-bearded man with a big paunch
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Noun
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With restaurants, retail shops and crafts markets throughout, there’s plenty to keep kids entertained and bellies full.—
Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2026
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If hung in the Louvre, there would be a fist on their bellies performing the Heimlich.— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2026
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The kids rush to the sand and remain undisturbed for hours, carrying buckets of water from the sea to their sandcastles, until hungry stomachs finally pull them away.— Maddy Odom, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2026
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Total gastrectomies had been performed before, in patients whose stomachs were already ridden with tumors—but never routinely in healthy people who did not have cancer and may ultimately never have cancer at all.— Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026
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Mixed performance was observed at other multinational corporations, with standout brands like SK-II growing at 62 percent in March, and Cetaphil growing at 40 percent.— Denni Hu, Footwear News, 29 Apr. 2026
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But Anthropic has been riding high on the explosive popularity of Claude Code and booming sales of its AI models to large corporations.— Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
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“Paunches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/paunches. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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