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
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
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
It’s important that you approach slowly and with caution—and preferably from a posterior angle, where they have little to no vision.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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
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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