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Recent Examples of thorax
At around 3 to 4 millimeters, the adults have a tan thorax, and the abdomen is split with black on top and gray on the underside.
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
The text stops mid-sentence in case 48 at the arms and upper thorax.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
Strut that runway with your arms and legs poking out of your thorax and looking sooo long!
—Julie Sharbutt, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2025
Some of these can lead to accumulation of fluid in the thorax or chest cavity.
—Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 14 July 2024
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
The text stops mid-sentence in case 48 at the arms and upper thorax.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
Strut that runway with your arms and legs poking out of your thorax and looking sooo long!
—Julie Sharbutt, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2025
Some of these can lead to accumulation of fluid in the thorax or chest cavity.
—Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 14 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thorax
Noun
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When Ford was 2 years old, he was diagnosed with neuroblastoma and had a tumor the size of a tennis ball in his abdomen, according to his dad.—
Julie Tremaine,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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Painful bloat set into my upper abdomen.—
Jessie Rosen,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The cause was classified as norovirus, a contagious virus that causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and is commonly known as the stomach flu.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
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Adair, still in handcuffs, is then picked up from the wheelchair by several deputies and placed on his stomach on the bottom bunk in his cell, the KBI said.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Thorax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thorax. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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