frontal

as in front
being at or in the forward part or surface of something most cars have the engine in the frontal part

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Recent Examples of frontal There’s traction alopecia, which happens when repeated physical pulling on the hair causes damage, usually along the frontal hairline. Jenna Ryu, SELF, 23 May 2025 For example, a patient of Sub-Saharan African descent won’t receive the same temple angles or frontal design as a patient from the Balkans or Central Asia. Ascend Agency, Baltimore Sun, 21 May 2025 For example, when targeting a T-72 tank, just hitting the thick frontal armor will barely leave a scratch. David Hambling, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025 Before sunrise, the storm collides with the Black Mountains, particularly the towering frontal wall called the Blue Ridge Escarpment. Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for frontal
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  • But they were awakened around 2 a.m. Saturday by someone pounding on the front door and shouting, asking to enter and identifying himself as a police officer, the family recounted.
    Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 20 June 2025
  • Upon arrival at around 3:35 a.m., officers witnessed the suspect shoot one of the victims through the open front door.
    Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2025
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  • The same oxytocin and vasopressin systems responsible for long-term romantic bonding in monogamous species are also activated in human relationships, with observable effects on neural regions like the anterior cingulate cortex, ventral pallidum and insula.
    Ximena Araya-Fischel, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • That’s why the most common locations for stress reactions are in the bones of the feet, such as the calcaneus, fifth metatarsal, sesamoid, talar neck and tarsal navicular, and in the bones of the legs, such as the anterior tibial cortex, femoral neck and femoral head.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025

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“Frontal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frontal. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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