as in cheeks
the part of the body upon which someone sits
cleaned the baby's behind
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Noun
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The videoboard showed Fry, a bandage applied beneath his nose and stretching to both cheeks, waving the flag on the third-base line as the crowd roared.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025 -
Skeet is a diminutive figure with short, gray hair, and a round face with prominent cheeks.—
Mitch Moxley,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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With both travel and programming budgets under pressure, all markets have to make a strong case to get buyer and seller bums on seats (or, more accurately, into screening booths and meeting rooms).—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
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Ndiaye aside, Everton have long lacked bums-off-seats kinds of players.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The new party might have to limit itself to running only for seats that neither Reform nor the Conservatives could possibly win, for example.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
4 Oct. 2025
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Halloween-style may not to be worn upon entry and in concourses but will be permitted when guests are in seats.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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Stars are seen to be forming within the Magellanic Stream, and similar bridges and tidal tails are known to be hot-spots of star formation elsewhere in the universe.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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The researchers had shown in 2023 that parasitic scraps of DNA could spread within bacterial populations by hitching rides on the tails of infecting viruses.—
Elie Dolgin,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Behinds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/behinds. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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