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Recent Examples of solar plexusesFour 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
And, apparently, the eerie pictures are turning people's stomachs.
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Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2026
Cue a litany of tough guys (and wannabe tough guys) coming for their dough — especially a giant, flawless diamond, which repeatedly changes hands (and stomachs) over the course of the film.
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Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Sep. 2026
Yes, otters — those adorable little scamps with nearly human faces that mostly lie on their backs at the surface, using their bellies as snack trays.
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Jack Dolan,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Sep. 2026
On a typical day this July, around four Roosevelt impersonators were roaming the streets, identifiable by their mustaches, stout bellies, and dispensing of homespun wisdom.
In other crashes, the handlebars are driven back into riders’ abdomens, causing severe damage to the liver, spleen and pancreas.
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Lila Hempel-Edgers,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Aug. 2026
The magazine’s anatomically graphic photos—rats butchered alive, dogs with their faces sliced open, monkeys screaming at the electrodes implanted in their abdomens—seemed like windows into hell.