posterior
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Scientists have long proposed, including Sur's colleague Earl K. Miller at MIT, that the prefrontal cortex can guide the activity of more posterior areas of the brain.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025
Research has shown that the premotor and posterior parietal cortices, along with the temporoparietal junction, are active in the brain when we are locating or thinking about ourselves.
From Salon ● May 26, 2025
Brown: Posterior chain is everything up and down the backside of your body and the posterior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
Dr. Keith Meister performed the surgery in Arlington, Texas, to repair what Hollander described as a small tear in the posterior of Brash’s ulnar collateral ligament.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024
I should record them for posterity—a word I only recently learned means the people who come after you in history, not your rear end, which is your posterior.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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
Radke examines the bustle, popularized in 1868, a rare historic moment when women opted to increase the appearance of their posteriors to “create the desired gluteal lump.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2022
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
For as to your scheme of raising one hundred and ten thousand pounds, it is as vain as that of Rabelais; which was, to squeeze out wind from the posteriors of a dead ass.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Temple Scott
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G.1: Principles of Geography (Sources 1–14)
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