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Recent Examples of solar plexusPrices that jumped to a degree acted like a punch to the financial solar plexus of a large portion of renters.—Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025 The Chinese ban plainly hit Trump in the solar plexus.—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025 By Emma Specter Wellness 5 Daily Activities That Lower Cortisol, No Meditation Required
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Yellow: Stemming from your solar plexus, yellow is about your intelligence, joy, and happiness.—Audrey Noble, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2025 My solar plexus – slow rising heat, like a tea kettle on simmer.—Sam McManis, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for solar plexus
This is a man who shows up at a bank with two dubious associates — the glowering, hair-trigger Sal (Moss-Bachrach) and, until his stomach gives out, the wobbling hot mess Ray-Ray (Christopher Sears) — and a bunch of guns.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2026
Until the lava of the bird’s stomach melts her valiant resins, dissolves her nomadic strength, and transforms her into a viscous secretion.
The side stitch is a sharp, localized pain that comes on during exercise and occurs in the abdomen, typically below the rib cage, according to Hunter Carter, an exercise physiologist at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
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Jenny McCoy,
SELF,
26 Mar. 2026
Hernandez and another man walked to the hospital, where Hernandez was pronounced dead from a wound to the abdomen hours later.