anterior
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He has featured in 18 Premier League games this season after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament in 2024.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
And it happened to her a week earlier, too, when she sustained a torn anterior cruciate ligament in a crash at Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
Vonn, 41, insisted that the ruptured anterior cruciate ligament she suffered in a crash in a World Cup race before the Milan-Cortina Games "had nothing to do with my crash whatsoever".
From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026
That’s why Vonn was even racing on Jan. 30 in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, when she careened off course and ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026
The paralysis was accompanied by destruction of the nerve sheaths and by degeneration of the cells of the anterior horns of the spinal cord.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing anterior
Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: ante, anti
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