backside
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It might be a game where Arsenal need a little kick up the backside, though.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
And have the most important play happen while some latecomer blocks your view with his backside while trying to find his seat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
She landed a competition-first backside 1620 trick - featuring four-and-a-half rotations - but over-rotated at the very last moment.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
After two days, I’d start eyeing my mushy backside with disdain in restaurant windows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
“I do apologize,” I say, removing my backside from the squash of her box.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Perhaps part of the reason for the silence is that people aren’t getting the information out of Iran that they need to get them off their backsides and into the streets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
“We are working our backsides off, we feel unfulfilled, and we think, ‘For what?’”
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 10, 2026
A stirring which became an explosion as James Slipper, Jake Gordon and Tom Wright hit the Lions with three tries in mere minutes and put them on their backsides.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025
To its embarrassment, the Katy ISD Board of Trustees realized that its “nudity” bans had extended to several elementary school library books depicting cartoon backsides.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023
He bought a package of typing paper and wrote straight through the stack, then he turned it over and wrote on the backsides of the pages.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
