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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

Williams’ shift from prostrate grief to helpless amusement hints at hidden dimensions of a character who will always be a couple of steps ahead of the men trying to control her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

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

Louisiana’s grandmother had a tissue in her hand, and she waved it back and forth in front of her face and said to no one in particular, “I am positively prostrate with grief.”

From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo

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

And still further on, the well-attired gentleman prostrates himself with the ragged beggar in worshipping the same common and universal God!

From Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847 by Pickett, Albert James

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

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

After walking out, Thaksin placed a flower wreath and prostrated before a portrait of Thailand’s king and queen at the gate of the terminal.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2023

Earlier on Friday, Francis prostrated himself on the floor of an empty St. Peter’s Basilica to pray at a “Passion of the Lord” service.

From Reuters ● Apr. 2, 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

As I prostrated, the Mutawaf fended pilgrims off to keep me from being trampled.

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

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

Can you capture his magic without prostrating yourself before the sorcerer?

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021

In a mainly Latinx suburb in Florida, neighbors greet each morning by prostrating themselves before mute, bird-bodied angels that sit and s**t on their roofs.

From Salon ● May 17, 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