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insides

noun

plural of inside

as in gut

the internal organs of the body medical students eager to see what people's insides look like

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Recent Examples of insides The only difference is that, after this race, some of the competitors collapsed to the floor with sparks flying from their insides while safety officials charged over to attend to them with fire extinguishers. — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026 Female flies bore into the fig to lay their eggs, which hatch out as larvae inside the fruit and eat the unripe insides before burrowing their way out. — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026 The Perpetually Composed, radiating calm while your insides are in chaos? — Laide Alexander, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 The depression is a gritty-slick coating that constantly throbs against my thoughts and my insides. — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026 De Hooch’s picture is a puzzle box—an ingenious construction of openings and closings, insides and outsides, revelation and concealment. — Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 11 July 2026 There were pale lime-skinned figs with lemon-yellow insides, mauve figs with strawberry insides, striped with pale-rose. — Angelica Calabrese, Longreads, 7 July 2026 Its insides might be like a very hot vacuum. — Joe Rao, Space.com, 26 June 2026 The scans were used to make a three-dimensional model of the octopus, including its insides. — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 26 May 2026

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gut

Noun

Rather than just a reproductive issue, endometriosis is a whole-body condition, affecting everything from emotional regulation to hormone production and gut health.

— Bella Webb, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2026
That matters because gut health is having a cultural moment, and companies from Kohler to Toto are betting people will pay hundreds of dollars plus a monthly subscription to see what their toilet has to say about their bodies.

— Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026

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