posterior
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"The depression and the anxiety I've had from this stupid decision to try and alter my posterior, it just wasn't worth it," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
To offset that, he pays extra attention to strengthening the posterior, or back, chain of their bodies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026
Throughout these tasks, researchers recorded the activity of neurons in ACA, ORB, VISp and MOp, with particular attention to the signals traveling along the axons linking prefrontal and posterior areas.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025
As a parent, the first time I saw one of my sons talk out of their posterior on a subject they knew nothing about, I laughed.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025
“At the occipital bone, the posterior base of my skull,” Rachael said.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
It's not just about red boxes and posteriors on the seats of government cars.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Today, those same simulated posteriors are essential to making sure new sensors are in good working order.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
This from someone who refers to his players’ posteriors as “tails” — as in, “They practiced their tails off this week.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2019
“They kicked our ass,” Texas Coach Tom Herman, then the offensive coordinator at Ohio State, recalled this past summer, but they just did not kick it in the way other posteriors have gotten kicked lately.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2017
There was no alternative, therefore, but to fling themselves on their posteriors, and slide down the slope.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Johann Baptist Zwecker
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G.1: Principles of Geography (Sources 1–14)
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