rear
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The plane continued down the runway as sparks and fire wrapped around the rear fuselage, before it slowed to a stop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
In Tesla's Model 3, for example, passengers must reach into a compartment inside the door pocket and find a release cable to manually open the rear door, according to the company's website.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Running too low through the flat-out final corner, Verstappen's inside wheels caught the wet painted line and he lost the rear, sending him nose first into the outside wall.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
A gun's rear sight and a musket side plate found nearby offer some support for that interpretation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
In front of the door stood a green city bus with soldiers occupying the rear seats.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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But for the most part, Ferraiolo says, young people have a fear of missing out—a phenomenon that rears its head every time an investment soars, as seen in recent years with cryptocurrency and meme stocks.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
Gold often reasserts its role as a safe harbor when uncertainty rears its head, drawing investors toward its stability as other assets wobble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
This is the dual state that you lived in, and that you worked in, and that must be called out unflinchingly whenever it rears its head, yet, paradoxically, also now more than ever.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2025
Real life, in short, rears its ugly head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
Autumn rears back and slashes the nearby flowers at the stem.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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The Medicare issue has also reared its head in recent times.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
He even managed to send two of his four children to university with the help of government grants by selling livestock he reared by himself.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
When the eggs hatch, the birds are then reared to point of fledge.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
Bodexpress was the last to try, in 2019, but he reared leaving the starting gate and dumped his jockey.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
They were all there, all of them: the twins, poised and alert in the windowsill; Francis, with his back to me; Henry beside him; and Bunny across the table, reared back in his chair.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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In a late July televised speech President Herzog, who holds a mostly ceremonial role, warned of "violence rearing its head" and reminded citizens that "elections are not a civil war".
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Now those fears seem to be rearing their head once more.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Back in 2019, standing on that Dongguan campus with white marble horses rearing in front of a French neoclassical facade, Huawei’s defiance felt like a genuine statement of strength.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
"The kicker is within two or three days of giving birth, they fall pregnant again so while they're rearing the first litter, they're gestating the second," Henry says.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
So Sunflower bounced up, down, sideways, and backward, rearing and kicking and chopping, snorting furiously, only Herbie still wouldn’t come unglued.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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