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Recent Examples of bellyful The apex of that transformation arrived with the N.F.L. planting this year’s event in Las Vegas, where the prevailing ethos might well be that a bellyful of anything is barely enough. Billy Witz, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024 Go instead for the exquisite acting, the splendiferous set — and a bellyful of laughs. Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019 Who wants to talk of destruction with a bellyful of ribs? John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019 On its way to skim the lake and grab a bellyful of water to drop on a nearby forest fire, a CL-215—also known as Scooper—gave him a nice little haircut. Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2016 The ecologist gets his data and the caiman is none the worse for wear, save for losing a bellyful of rotting flesh. Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bellyful
Noun
  • And the $529 million shortfall already assumes $300 million in TIF surplus.
    Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
  • At Tuesday’s meeting, the school board was informed that the surplus of federal funds that had been used to offer free lunch throughout the district for the past school year was finally depleted.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Mania, the one side of its polarity, wants novelty, power, movement, excess.
    Cameron Esposito, Glamour, 12 May 2025
  • Amid low hope for progress, one positive outcome for financial markets in talks would be an agreement to bring down tariffs from an excess of 100 percent to levels allowing products to flow each way, Reuters reported.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025

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“Bellyful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bellyful. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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