1
as in rear
being at or in the part of something opposite the front part
the chapel's posterior location in the church serves to make it a quiet retreat
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2
as in subsequent
being, occurring, or carried out at a time after something else
artifacts dating from a posterior historical period
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as in cheeks
the part of the body upon which someone sits
the baseball players were always slapping one another on the posterior
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Recent Examples of posterior
Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2025
Bending the neck more than 20 degrees to view a smartphone or tablet puts excessive strain from head weight on the posterior neck muscles and places stress on the cervical spine.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2025
Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
And then there was the rising popularity in the twenty-tens of Brazilian butt lifts, signalling the hastening shift of America’s erotic focus from the bosom to the posterior.
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
Meanwhile, the posterior portion of the hippocampus that lit up is the same region associated with an adult’s episodic memory banks.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2025
Bending the neck more than 20 degrees to view a smartphone or tablet puts excessive strain from head weight on the posterior neck muscles and places stress on the cervical spine.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
And the hitters were not the only ones who bore witness to Hedges’ posterior.
—Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
And then there was the rising popularity in the twenty-tens of Brazilian butt lifts, signalling the hastening shift of America’s erotic focus from the bosom to the posterior.
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for posterior
Adjective
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The impact caused the rear door of Santiago’s SUV to open, spilling a 43-year-old Zion man to the ground and causing serious injury, police said.—
Clifford Ward,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2025
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The active rear spoiler, for example, is able to move between low- and high-drag modes more quickly, and there is a new medium-drag mode, too, which helps push the car down to the track at higher speeds.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman ascribed the team’s $1 billion bonanza after 2023 and a subsequent spree this past winter as safeguards against the irrationality of acquiring players at the trade deadline.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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This report and subsequent ones will highlight the IDR processing effort, showing whether the backlog of pending applications is finally shrinking and by how much.—
Shahar Ziv,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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An older woman, a friend of my mother’s (my mother was also a teacher at the school), walked over and pinched my cheeks, first one and then the other, as an adult might do to an infant.—
Yiyun Li,
The New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2025
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Ironically, her swollen face looks plump and round despite her partial buccal fat removal — a procedure that extracts the soft pads of tissue found inside the cheeks to create a slimmer face.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Mahathir walks in the back yard of his residence in Selangor on Nov. 14, 2022.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
2 May 2025
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In the video, a tool with a long piece of metal is sticking out of the suspect’s back pocket.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
2 May 2025
Noun
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The shark skin can be applied to an aircraft’s fuselage, wings, and tail, and could improve efficiency up to 4 percent, according to Micro Tau estimates.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
3 May 2025
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Lose a tail and stem cells in the spinal cord sync up like an orchestra, accelerating their division in unison to rebuild the missing structure.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
Noun
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As the final seats are allocated and the center-right Liberal Party surveys the damage – including the loss of its leader, Peter Dutton, from parliament – here are five takeaways.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
4 May 2025
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Dutton's plight parallels that of Canada's opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, who lost his seat after Trump declared economic war on the U.S. neighbor to the north.—
Time,
Time,
3 May 2025
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This was all done with a bum wrist, which posed as an inconvenience to him at times.—
Hannah Kirby,
Journal Sentinel,
4 Aug. 2024
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Tommy, left to prosecute the case against Rusty, has inherited a bum gig.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
26 July 2024
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Standing in the pen behind the bull, Glass makes kissing noises and pats the animal’s rump for encouragement, while Scalisi stands ready, hand on the chute’s lever.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Mar. 2025
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Nearly 60 percent of veteran voters backed T rump, while roughly 40 percent cast their vote for Harris.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Posterior.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posterior. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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