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But as Argentine players lay prostrate on the pitch and Argentine fans lost their minds, they didn’t care that it wasn’t pretty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Leading robotic urological surgeon Professor Prokar Dasgupta said it felt "almost as if I was there" as he carried out a prostrate removal on Paul Buxton.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

Department of Health and Human Services now requires consent for breast, pelvic, prostrate and rectal exams for “educational and training purposes” performed by medical students, nurse practitioners or physician assistants.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

His famous father also had his own health scare, announcing in 2009 that he had been diagnosed with prostrate cancer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

Mother comes to my side, and her strong arms keep me from falling prostrate.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

In her 1910 autobiography, she wrote of the Santa Ana wind that “its breath dries up the plants, gives headaches to people, and prostrates them … it uproots trees, tears off roofs, and devastates fields.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2021

I quite like this tableau, the mystic bard shuffling sadly on to a plane, foregoing his ancient principle of opposing a supertax, as his agent prostrates himself on the ground for his lost 700 grand.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2020

Fazal’s Karim smiles a lot, seems absolutely enchanted by English weather and, at their second meeting, without provocation, prostrates himself to kiss Victoria’s feet.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 25, 2017

The other prostrates himself, back bent, head lowered, with his right arm outstretched over clusters of bananas and other produce offered as homage to the allegorical queen.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2016

Then passes through their ranks, the son of heaven, who enters the temple of the ancestors, and prostrates himself, in his turn, thrice before the tablet of his fathers. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis

There, the four candidates for bishop prostrated themselves before an altar, their heads buried in red velvet pillows.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

At another point of the ceremony, the nine lay prostrated on a carpet in front of the basilica’s central altar in a sign of obedience, humility and giving of oneself.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2021

“The French justice system has prostrated itself before a writer,” said Mehana Mouhou, a lawyer involved in the suit against the author.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2020

At one point in the Mass, the archbishop prostrated himself, his face and hands touching the carpet in front of the altar.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2019

Great Ceremony of the Celebration of the Return to Egypt has begun!” she chanted, and all four Egyptians prostrated themselves before the egg crate and the birdbath.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

We’re too busy bowing to false equivalency and prostrating ourselves on the altar of access.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024

But it was his act of prostrating in prayer after goals that reverberated in the wider global consciousness, even among those who don't follow football.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2022

The movie opens in 66 A.D., with the Jewish multitudes prostrating themselves in the courtyards of the temple atoning for their sins on Yom Kippur.

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2021

She does not recover her full titles but is treated as a full princess, with staff prostrating themselves at her feet.

From Reuters ● Feb. 8, 2019

The seventh time around, I prayed two Rak’a, prostrating myself, my head on the floor.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey