the bowels
plural noun
literary
: the deep inner parts of something
They dug deep into the bowels of the earth.
The engine room is down in the bowels of the ship.
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To enter, customers descend a flight of stairs into the bowels of the old building.
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Kansas City Star, 17 July 2025
Instead, Toronto’s $500 million franchise player stood in the batting cage tucked within the bowels of Rogers Centre.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 25 July 2025
Both regular and decaf coffee stimulate the bowels, but their effects vary depending on the caffeine content and additives like milk.
—Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 21 July 2025
In an effort to provide a glimpse of the rigors that come with donning the tools of ignorance, The Denver Post chronicled a day in the life of the Goodmans — from those sips of coffee in their LoDo apartment all the way to the cold tub in the bowels of Coors Field.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 15 July 2025
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Kansas City Star, 17 July 2025
Instead, Toronto’s $500 million franchise player stood in the batting cage tucked within the bowels of Rogers Centre.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 25 July 2025
Both regular and decaf coffee stimulate the bowels, but their effects vary depending on the caffeine content and additives like milk.
—Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 21 July 2025
In an effort to provide a glimpse of the rigors that come with donning the tools of ignorance, The Denver Post chronicled a day in the life of the Goodmans — from those sips of coffee in their LoDo apartment all the way to the cold tub in the bowels of Coors Field.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 15 July 2025
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“The bowels.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20bowels. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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