as in aperture
a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing
the mouth is a bodily orifice
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Recent Examples of orifice
Rather than accepting its fate, the still-living meal escapes your stomach and flees through the nearest orifice.
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Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024
Just to clear up any lingering confusion: Fisting refers to an entire hand being inserted into an orifice.
—Sophie Saint Thomas, refinery29.com, 28 June 2024
Her back splits open like a raw coconut, her flesh flapping, oozing blood from her new orifice.
—Rachel Handler, Vulture, 20 May 2024
To ensure immortality, dead rulers’ bodily orifices were even plugged with precious jade.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2024
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Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024
Just to clear up any lingering confusion: Fisting refers to an entire hand being inserted into an orifice.
—Sophie Saint Thomas, refinery29.com, 28 June 2024
Her back splits open like a raw coconut, her flesh flapping, oozing blood from her new orifice.
—Rachel Handler, Vulture, 20 May 2024
To ensure immortality, dead rulers’ bodily orifices were even plugged with precious jade.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2024
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“Orifice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orifice. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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