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 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 Instead, the team at the Field Museum used CT scans to take thousands of X-ray images, then compiled them to make a 3D model of the octopus, revealing its insides. CBS News, 26 May 2026 The scans were used to make a three-dimensional model of the octopus, including its insides. Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 26 May 2026
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gut
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  • That process happens anywhere in the world — including in the human gut, where microbes eat indigestible foods, and create a byproduct medical doctors might describe as flatulence.
    Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
  • The ensemble eking out hope in the Terrordome includes Angela McBride (Suzette Llewellyn), a mother of two who goes on a violent rampage of justice-seeking after a gut-wrenching loss.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 July 2026

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