everybody has their noses. vs Everybody has a nose.

The correct phrase is "everybody has a nose." The singular form "nose" is used because it refers to each individual person having one nose. The plural form "noses" would imply that each person has multiple noses, which is not the intended meaning.

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everybody has their noses.

This phrase is incorrect. The plural form "noses" suggests that each person has multiple noses, which is not the intended meaning.

The correct phrase should use the singular form "nose" to indicate that each individual person has one nose.

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Except someone's killing people right under their noses.
Not all paramedics need to wear... a broom under their noses.
You just let me worry about their noses.
He poaches animals right under their nose.
Americans never notice them, even though they're right under their noses.
I think they went to go powder their nose.
Sometimes I even stole acting work from right under their noses.
Pot-bellied pigs can't hear with their noses.
They can kill sharks with their noses.
The oil is taken from under their noses.
They can put that aromatic in their noses.
Look at your friends, and tell me you don't love getting away with this... right under their noses.
And it's right in the front of their nose.
With the toffee ears, and the big silver spoons in their noses.
For example, I hate to see men with a finger up their nose.
You are about to take a half a ton of gold, in broad daylight, from under their noses.
I've dropped more than one person in a full-immersion baptism... water gets up their nose.
We do it right under their noses.
The Italian people are outraged that the Tornado was able to pull this off right under their noses.
She would have stolen over a quarter of a million dollars right out from under their noses.

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Everybody has a nose.

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English. It correctly indicates that each person has one nose.

Use this phrase to state that each individual person has one nose.

Examples:

Everybody has a nose, which is used for breathing.
Do you know that everybody has a nose?
It's a fact that everybody has a nose.
In our class, everybody has a nose.
Everybody has a nose, regardless of their age.

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My partner has a nose like a bloodhound.
Carol has a nose for the best Thai cooking anywhere in town.
Turns out that she has a nose for missing shrimp trucks.
Because a puffer-pig has a nose for precious minerals.
See, Anatoli here has a nose for trouble.
And apparently, my Henry has a nose like a wolf.
The man has a nose for dirt.
That man has a nose for a corpse
The bear has a nose for females!
'The new MH67 Contusion Helicopter carries, as standard, '40 Venom HE missiles, 2,00030mm armour-piercing rounds 'and has a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition.'
But you have too straight a nose.
I've seen him shoot a nose.
You have a nose for noses.
You always did have a nose for noses.
Keith Mars loses sheriff's race by a nose.
And it's Swelligant by a nose.
Sure. Eyes and a nose.
I've always wanted a nose.
The baby you have already has eyes and a nose.
They're fish with a sword for a nose.

Alternatives:

everybody has a nose.
everyone has a nose.
each person has a nose.
all people have noses.
each individual has a nose.

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everybody has their noses. vs Everybody has a nose.