the bowels
plural noun
literary
: the deep inner parts of something
They dug deep into the bowels of the earth.
The engine room is down in the bowels of the ship.
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There is immense potential for the returning of power unjustly centralized inside the Beltway and within the bowels of unelected administration back to the people and their representatives.
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Jack Butler, National Review, 2 Mar. 2025
That’s only the case if your worldview is rooted in the bowels of Stanford’s National Accelerator Laboratory in the hills to the west of campus.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025
The period piece opens on its protagonist, László Tóth, a Jewish Hungarian architect immigrating to America in the 1940s, who emerges from the bowels of a ship on the Hudson River with nothing but dread.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
Dressed head-to-tie in different shades of pink, the two-time cancer survivor strolls around the bowels of the Miami International Autodrome as participants and attendees of the Dolphins Cancer Challenge crisscross her path.
—C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2025
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Jack Butler, National Review, 2 Mar. 2025
That’s only the case if your worldview is rooted in the bowels of Stanford’s National Accelerator Laboratory in the hills to the west of campus.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025
The period piece opens on its protagonist, László Tóth, a Jewish Hungarian architect immigrating to America in the 1940s, who emerges from the bowels of a ship on the Hudson River with nothing but dread.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
Dressed head-to-tie in different shades of pink, the two-time cancer survivor strolls around the bowels of the Miami International Autodrome as participants and attendees of the Dolphins Cancer Challenge crisscross her path.
—C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2025
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“The bowels.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20bowels. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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