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When your team wins, the ventral striatum—that critical node in the brain’s reward pathway—erupts in a euphoric burst, akin to achieving a personal milestone, despite no actual direct involvement with the team.
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Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Equipped with a ventral air intake, the missile is believed to sustain powered hypersonic flight at Mach 10 or higher, giving it longer range and greater flexibility than boost-glide systems.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Blazars are a ventral hub of power and light within these galaxies that aren’t powered by stars.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2025
In total, the scientists placed 256 microelectrode arrays in three brain regions, chief among them the ventral precentral gyrus, which plays a key role in controlling the muscles underlying speech.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2025
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Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Equipped with a ventral air intake, the missile is believed to sustain powered hypersonic flight at Mach 10 or higher, giving it longer range and greater flexibility than boost-glide systems.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Blazars are a ventral hub of power and light within these galaxies that aren’t powered by stars.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2025
In total, the scientists placed 256 microelectrode arrays in three brain regions, chief among them the ventral precentral gyrus, which plays a key role in controlling the muscles underlying speech.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ventral
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At the core of the system is the ability to read ErrPs generated in the brain’s anterior cingulate cortex.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Mar. 2026
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The company plans to target the anterior cingulate cortex, a brain region linked to the emotional experience of pain.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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But a stationary frontal boundary could linger across Maui and the Big Island through the middle of the week, keeping the risk of additional rain and flooding in place.—
Greg Porter,
San Francisco Chronicle,
15 Mar. 2026
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The forcing and lift along the frontal boundary will keep storm chances around through the weekend.—
Newsroom Meteorologist,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Still, the experience taught me to work with the end in mind, and now the front and back halves of my process are in better synch.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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The conflict has been largely kept off the front pages by the war in Iran.—
Rabia Akhtar,
The Conversation,
20 Mar. 2026
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This context brings to the fore several questions: is Disney using this as a way to crowdsource new content ideas with their current IP?—
Damion Taylor,
Forbes.com,
12 Feb. 2026
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Seeing the whole project laid out and discovering just how much African decolonization movements in the ’60s and beyond brought to the fore African filmmakers and filmmakers around the diaspora who were really stepping behind the camera for the first time and telling their stories.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Ventral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ventral. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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