midsections

Definition of midsectionsnext
plural of midsection
as in waists
the middle region of the human torso did exercises to strengthen the muscles in her midsection

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waists
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  • As the twentieth century progresses, Steele moves from Christian Dior’s New Look—which brought back feminine opulence in the postwar period, with decadent skirts and cinched waists—to the rise of punk as a style that emphasized abjection, discomfort, and aggression.
    Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The prototype — designed, like the Miura, by Gandini — first appeared at the 1971 Geneva Motor Show, an impossible doorstop of a spaceship with a roofline that barely came up to the waists of the go-go-boot-wearing models who posed alongside it.
    Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Midsections.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midsections. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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