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
When strength training later in life, more attention must be paid to building strength around the joints, Herbert says, and strengthening the posterior, or back, chain of the body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 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
The US Ski & Snowboard Team said Shiffrin would continue to be assessed but her anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments "seem intact".
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2024
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
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
His bare posteriors when they found, Loud laughter shook the benches round; Nor could the fox without a tail To introduce the mode prevail.
From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Marmaduke Park
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