rear
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A female rear seat passenger, aged in her 20s, was taken to St. Luke's General Hospital and is in a serious condition.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Investors need to be on their guard against the pumpkin-spice latte effect, which is about to rear its ugly head.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Trump boarded the presidential jet in full view of video cameras and photographers, with AFP pictures showing two supply containers on hydraulic lifts at the front and rear of the aircraft.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
As smoke, then distressed passengers emerged from the rear of the plane, it because clear what had happened.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
He landed hard on his bottom, and for a second, he wasn’t sure which hurt more, his rear end or his throbbing head.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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
Zamrock - with its heady blend of psychedelic rock and traditional Zambian sounds - rears its head on Can't Hold Us, the first single to be released from Sampa's upcoming album.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2025
The thing is, it always rears its ugly side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Real life, in short, rears its ugly head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
In that moment, the thresher rears up its tail and lands a tremendous blow on the whale’s snout.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
There we met 60-year-old Rameshwar Yadav, a former private-school teacher who now reared buffaloes for a living.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Patel’s instinct to use force to fix his reputation reared its head again with the girlfriend scandal.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
For now, February’s retail figures stand as a snapshot of an economy that was briefly gathering strength, before war reared its head.
From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026
But then love and marriage reared its head and Burden’s story took a dark turn, which she chronicles with a keen forensic eye in her buzzy new memoir, “Strangers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
Malevolent reared back, but she was too late: Jack and May struck in unison, each using two hands to smash their weapons down as hard as they could right on the dragon’s head.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
CJ7 and 022 had successfully bred at the nest site at Careys Secret Garden for three consecutive years, rearing three young in 2023, four in 2024 and a further four in 2025.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Now those fears seem to be rearing their head once more.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Scientific studies have shown that as fathers have taken a more active role in child rearing, they’ve faced loneliness, doubt and confusion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Can you explain how those principles align with child rearing?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
But the most terrifying spectacle of all was Boxer, rearing up on his hind legs and striking out with his great iron-shod hoofs like a stallion.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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