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
"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
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
He plumped his large posterior onto the lavatory pan.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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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
I wonder if he was a relation of the Carters of Portsmouth, because if he is, his posteriors have greatly degenerated in size and figure.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper
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G.1: Principles of Geography (Sources 1–14)
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