posterior
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A friend in her 80s slipped on the stairs to her flooded basement and fell, breaking two posterior ribs and injuring her shoulder.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 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
“Yours truly trusts that a modicum of caution will he exercised in the prance, to prevent delivery of uncomfortable blows to the posterior of the forequarters?”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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
I waxed old in misery and disgrace, having only one-half of my posteriors, and always remembering I was a Pope's daughter.
From Candide by Voltaire
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G.1: Principles of Geography (Sources 1–14)
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