prostration
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Whether he was celebrating a goal with his shirt off or bowing down in Sujood - the Islamic act of prostration - there are images of Salah that will never be forgotten.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
With his thick beard, heavy-rimmed glasses and a prominent bruise on his forehead from prostration in prayer, he was notoriously prickly and pedantic.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
Most worshippers brought their own prayer rugs and clay tablets used during prostration, said the broadcast.
From Reuters ● Oct. 22, 2021
One newspaper covering a local 1831 Anti-Masonic convention highlighted the now increasingly popular view “that Antimasonry had other and higher objects in view than the prostration of the Masonic fraternity.”
From Slate ● May 15, 2015
“Of nervous prostration following on great loss or waste of blood.”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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Dracula
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"Paradise Lost" by John Milton, Book V
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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