posterior
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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
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
At one end sat Chiron the centaur, his equine posterior collapsed into his magic wheelchair so he looked like a regular human.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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
Those lucky enough to have got their posteriors on the leather seats of ministerial cars all know the situation is bad.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2023
The legion resulting posteriors may protrude into the seawater through natural holes in the sponge and amble along its surface.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 8, 2021
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
Yes, dear Gelid, so sure as you have been landed down on your posteriors now—ah—you shall be handed down to your posterity hereafter, by that pestilent little scamp Cringle.
From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott
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