lateral
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The science of willpower is that there is part of the brain toward the front, toward the lateral prefrontal cortex, that is in charge of ordering around the rest of your brain.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
Then a quartet of Crimson players in diamond formation would rotate around him, ready to catch a deflection or take a lateral and speed into the end zone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
That limitation has made it much harder to study serious diseases involving the brain stem, including spinal muscular atrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Jefferson threw a lateral to senior wide receiver Gavin Lorge, who threw it back to Jefferson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
These flows did not reach as far away from the mountain as the earlier lateral blast, which had already killed almost everything living in the area of Pumice Plain.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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