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posterior

[po-steer-ee-er, poh-] / pɒˈstɪər i ər, poʊ- /




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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

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

He plumped his large posterior onto the lavatory pan.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

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

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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