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as in appetite
a need or desire for food
the cake looks delicious, but I'm afraid that I have no stomach for sweets right now
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as in to tolerate
to put up with (something painful or difficult)
I could no longer stomach working for such a petty tyrant
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Recent Examples of stomach
ABC News,
22 June 2026
Side, back, and stomach-sleepers all rave about these top-selling bed pillows.
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Clara McMahon,
PEOPLE,
22 June 2026
Max Bultman,
New York Times,
9 June 2026
How much of this turmoil will Ellison stomach?
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Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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Noun
The pulses are designed to normalize the nerve messaging from the brain to the stomach to relieve symptoms of nausea and vomiting without side effects.
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ABC News,
22 June 2026
Side, back, and stomach-sleepers all rave about these top-selling bed pillows.
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Clara McMahon,
PEOPLE,
22 June 2026
Verb
This is a proud franchise and fan base, and suffering through a decade of irrelevance has been tough to stomach for all involved.
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Max Bultman,
New York Times,
9 June 2026
How much of this turmoil will Ellison stomach?
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Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stomach
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Next to Johnson, police also found an 85-year-old woman suffering from a stab wound to her abdomen, Holtz said.
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At least one person from the vehicle fired shots at the victim, hitting him multiple times in the abdomen, and he was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
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On the other side of the supply-and-demand scale, consumers’ appetite for oil fell substantially more over the past few months than just about anyone predicted.
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Councilmember Ken Houston has dropped a November ballot measure seeking to strip the Oakland Police Commission’s ability to fire and help hire the chief — legislation that would have tested voter appetite for scaling back the commission’s responsibilities.
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This is because many people tolerate the early dose reductions fairly well but struggle more near the end of the taper because the brain becomes increasingly sensitive to serotonin changes at lower doses.
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Six years later, an ostensibly secret but broadly tolerated Remonstrant church was established in Delft.
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For some golfers the belly putter did help, so the rules of golf banned it (longer putters are still legal, but anchoring is not).
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And inside State Farm Arena, generations of soccer and music fans gathered in their wolf ears and belly dancing skirts for the first night of Shakira's Atlanta tour stop.
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The state also ranks fourth in the nation for childhood poverty and hunger, according to Katie Ruth Camp, the organization's vice president of marketing and public relations.
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Feeling comfortably full may help prevent waking up from hunger in the middle of the night.
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Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.
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The third baseman, playing in his first major league game since fracturing his ankle on May 12, 2025, couldn’t handle a Willson Contreras grounder with a man on first and one out.
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These funds currently account for almost one-fifth of Haiti’s gross domestic product and are primarily used to prevent starvation, support daily necessities, and fund education and healthcare for relatives back home.
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Less than two years after an infant girl died of apparent starvation in Mesquite, the child's parents pleaded guilty to a lesser crime and received lengthy prison sentences.
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The gush of new money stands to drive up the cost of homes in neighborhoods already in hot demand, echoing a pattern that has occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Shamea stands ten toes down, and the digs start flying again as Shamea brings out her receipts from Ashley.
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“Stomach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stomach. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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