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posterior

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




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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

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

Dyeing poison frogs, Dendrobates tinctorius, have been shown to tap their posterior toes in response to a range of prey sizes, from small fruit flies to large crickets.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 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

Radke examines the bustle, popularized in 1868, a rare historic moment when women opted to increase the appearance of their posteriors to “create the desired gluteal lump.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2022

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

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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