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Recent Examples of dorsal
By attacking them from below, the orcas avoid the whale sharks' tough dorsal skin that has denticles embedded on the outside, with thick connective tissue beneath it.
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New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
Because of this dorsal/ventral bias in body bends, any normal living, moving individual tends to lie on either its left side or its right side when observed crossing a horizontal surface.
—John Werner, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
As seen in the preview clip below, Hudson invites Hahn to share how the dorsal nudity in Agatha All Along‘s first episode came to be, and then presents her with a plaque commemorating her piece of Marvel history.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 27 Oct. 2024
When a wave of dorsal/ventral muscle contractions proceeds from the back to the front of the animal, the animal is propelled backwards.
—John Werner, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dorsal
Adjective
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Porto found traces of DNA from three people, including O'Keefe, on the outside of Read’s right rear taillight and on multiple pieces of O’Keefe’s clothing.—
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There are some slight design differences between them (the 16S has a rear thermal block that's missing on the V 16S), and the 16S tops out at an RTX 5070 Ti while the V 16S only goes up to an RTX 5070.—
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Most back of the knee pain, known as posterior knee pain, comes from an injury.—
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Jaylen Brown, who tallied 21 points and 11 rebounds in Game 4, is listed as questionable for Game 5 with the right knee posterior impingement that has nagged him since before the NBA All-Star break.—
Adjective
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Prosecutors say Dugan escorted Eduardo Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer out of her courtroom through a back jury door on April 18 after learning that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were in the courthouse seeking his arrest.—
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One of the first Georgians to enroll in the program in 2023, Seaborn had written a letter thanking his insurance provider for covering a procedure for his back pain.—
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At the opposite end, the aft cockpit is perfect for alfresco dining or lounging.—
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In the immediate aftermath, Russian flight controllers attempted to use the European robotic arm, attached to the Russian segment of the station, to observe the aft end of the Soyuz where the leak occurred.—
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“Dorsal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dorsal. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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