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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
Adjective
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These neurons do not naturally regenerate, making disorders such as open-angle glaucoma and non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy especially difficult to treat.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026
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In apes, these neurons appear in both the insula – a part of the brain important for processing internal body states – and the anterior cingulate, which plays a key role in emotional regulation.—
Kelly Lambert,
Fortune,
16 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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By the afternoon, a surface system of low atmospheric pressure moving into North Texas will push into Austin a dry-line frontal boundary separating dry and humid air masses.—
Mary Wasson,
Austin American Statesman,
25 Feb. 2026
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Trump is pressuring Mexico for a more frontal fight against the cartels and has threatened to take unilateral military action to address it.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
24 Feb. 2026
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Detectives opened the front trunk of the car and saw a cadaver bag covered with insects, the documents say.—
Kyung Lah,
CNN Money,
26 Feb. 2026
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There’s really no good reason why so many of us only decorate our front doors for the winter holiday season, when a little bit of brightness can go a long way the rest of the year, too.—
Joseph Erbentraut,
Better Homes & Gardens,
26 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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The museum is the latest of many US arts institutions whose employees have unionized in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, which brought to the fore issues such as pay disparity, job precarity, and a lack of insurance.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
17 Jan. 2026
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“Ventral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ventral. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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