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Each receptor is a protein that can recognize and latch onto many kinds of odorants — molecules that are light enough to evaporate off your cup of coffee, the wet grass outside, or the microbes in your armpits, and waft into the air and, in turn, your nasal passages.
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Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2025
The fatal shot entered Hinton's chest near his armpit on the left side hitting his heart, while another bullet grazed his right shoulder area.
—Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 19 May 2025
This includes looking and feeling for changes such as:
Lumps or thickening
Changes in size, shape, or feel
Skin texture changes (like puckering or dimpling)
Nipple discharge or changes
Persistent pain in the breast or armpit
The comment section of her video quickly filled with love and support.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 May 2025
Here, the afternoon heat meets armpits in the face, bodies jousting for balance, the smell of contest and blank slates (and, yes, a 35C/96F heatwave wafting).
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 3 July 2025
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Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2025
The fatal shot entered Hinton's chest near his armpit on the left side hitting his heart, while another bullet grazed his right shoulder area.
—Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 19 May 2025
This includes looking and feeling for changes such as:
Lumps or thickening
Changes in size, shape, or feel
Skin texture changes (like puckering or dimpling)
Nipple discharge or changes
Persistent pain in the breast or armpit
The comment section of her video quickly filled with love and support.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 May 2025
Here, the afternoon heat meets armpits in the face, bodies jousting for balance, the smell of contest and blank slates (and, yes, a 35C/96F heatwave wafting).
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 3 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for armpit
Noun
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This time around, earnings and revenue are both expected to decline year-over-year, and the options pits are pricing in a stock move of 10.9%, regardless of direction.—
Schaeffer's Investment Research,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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The agave is roasted in a pit with volcanic stones to give it a smoky flavor, but it’s not femented (the step in the production process that creates alcohol).—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Mike Birbiglia’s The Good Life, Marc Maron’s Panicked, Cameron Esposito’s Four Pills, and Bill Burr’s Drop Dead Years are all hours of comedy about reckoning with mortality, and each in their own way is a lovely, absurd, painful depiction of someone staring into an abyss and choosing to laugh.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
6 Aug. 2025
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Which is a reminder that inflation is a policy choice, not some long and painful hike back from the proverbial abyss.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
27 July 2025
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“Armpit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armpit. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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