insides

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 She’s gutted, her insides ripped out, and hung from a tree in the yard, dripping with blood. Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insides
gut
Noun
  • Jacksonville Jaguars coach Tom Coughlin spent 45 gut-wrenching minutes pacing through the team’s training facility while vainly trying to get ahold of his son, Tim, who worked on the 60th floor of Two World Trade.
    Michael Silver, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • In the human gut, for example, nutrient levels go up and down, temperatures shift and antibiotic threats come and go.
    Shiladitya Banerjee, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026

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“Insides.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insides. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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