solar plexuses

Definition of solar plexusesnext
plural of solar plexus
as in stomachs
the part of the body between the chest and the pelvis a punch in the solar plexus knocked the air out of him

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Recent Examples of solar plexuses Four male figures stood before me, their long necks headless, two-thirds of their abdomens replaced by their heads lodged between their solar plexuses and belly buttons. Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
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Noun
  • Foodies, get your stomachs and wallets ready.
    Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Seeing the opportunity, Wendy's hopes to step in and fill the chicken tender-sized hole in spectators' stomachs.
    Irene Wright, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Pairs of multibar angelfish, with their zebra-like stripes and bright yellow bellies, darted across a field of silvery staghorn coral.
    Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Jared Towers, the executive director of Bay Cetology, a research institute in Alert Bay, British Columbia, told the outlet that the group of orcas rubbing their bellies on the rocks comes from the A5 pod, which is composed of three different families.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Starting in 2013 more than a hundred thousand women received calls about the urgent need to have surgically implanted pelvic mesh removed from their lower abdomens.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The stingers they are equipped with can be up to about a quarter-inch (6 mm) in length and inject a painful venom – which is stored in large quantities in their abdomens – into their victims.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Dec. 2025

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“Solar plexuses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solar%20plexuses. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.

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