posterior
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"The depression and the anxiety I've had from this stupid decision to try and alter my posterior, it just wasn't worth it," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
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
Brown: Posterior chain is everything up and down the backside of your body and the posterior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
Panel recommendations include transvaginal ultrasound of the posterior compartment, observation of the relative positioning of the uterus and ovaries, and the uterine sliding sign maneuver to improve the detection of endometriosis.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2024
At one end sat Chiron the centaur, his equine posterior collapsed into his magic wheelchair so he looked like a regular human.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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
Those lucky enough to have got their posteriors on the leather seats of ministerial cars all know the situation is bad.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2023
Radke examines the bustle, popularized in 1868, a rare historic moment when women opted to increase the appearance of their posteriors to “create the desired gluteal lump.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2022
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
There was no alternative, therefore, but to fling themselves on their posteriors, and slide down the slope.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Johann Baptist Zwecker
Vocabulary lists containing posterior
G.1: Principles of Geography (Sources 1–14)
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