frontal

Definition of frontalnext
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 As the same frontal system pushes east, forecasters warn of another round of dangerous thunderstorms from Iowa and Missouri through the Great Lakes, with more travel disruptions and storm damage possible. Hallie Golden, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026 Philip Roth and John Updike can be accused of many things, but balking at full-frontal heterosexuality is not one of them. Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 Lean casual or go full-frontal glamour? Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 25 May 2026 The rain chance is high on Tuesday due to plenty of moisture south of a frontal boundary to our north. Lissette Gonzalez, CBS News, 12 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for frontal
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  • There are also several design iterations, like options with awnings over the front door or skylights, as well as different materials, including cotton.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2026
  • Like any celebrity billionaire, Swift loves a designer label, but she has never been known as a front-row-at-Paris-Fashion-Week, luxury-brand-muse kind of It Girl.
    Morgan Evans, USA Today, 25 June 2026
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  • One patient retained normal core disgust reactivity but could no longer recognize disgust in others’ faces; another with anterior insula damage showed dysregulation in both producing and experiencing disgust.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • To test this hypothesis, the researchers recruited seven people who were scheduled for an anterior temporal lobectomy, a type of surgery in which pieces of brain tissue are removed in order to treat severe epilepsy.
    Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 6 May 2026

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“Frontal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frontal. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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