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
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
I should record them for posterity—a word I only recently learned means the people who come after you in history, not your rear end, which is your posterior.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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
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 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
Vocabulary lists containing posterior
G.1: Principles of Geography (Sources 1–14)
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