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
Scientists have long proposed, including Sur's colleague Earl K. Miller at MIT, that the prefrontal cortex can guide the activity of more posterior areas of the brain.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025
Research has shown that the premotor and posterior parietal cortices, along with the temporoparietal junction, are active in the brain when we are locating or thinking about ourselves.
From Salon • May 26, 2025
Brown: Posterior chain is everything up and down the backside of your body and the posterior.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025
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
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