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as in seat
the part of the body upon which someone sits
plant yourselves on your breeches on that bench and listen to what I have to say
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as in pants
breeches plural
an outer garment covering each leg separately from waist to ankle
the mounted riders look striking in their red coats and white breeches
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Recent Examples of breech
Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear are trading ballrooms and breeches for boats and beaches.
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2024
In light of the breeches, his credit for season two was removed.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
However, some settle into breech or transverse positions.
—Brandi Jones, Verywell Health, 5 Aug. 2024
The 52-year-old entered the Palace of Versailles, Paris, on a golf cart, dressed in breeches, a dressage tailcoat, and hard hat.
—Bruce Haring, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2024
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2024
In light of the breeches, his credit for season two was removed.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
However, some settle into breech or transverse positions.
—Brandi Jones, Verywell Health, 5 Aug. 2024
The 52-year-old entered the Palace of Versailles, Paris, on a golf cart, dressed in breeches, a dressage tailcoat, and hard hat.
—Bruce Haring, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for breech
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The movie shows Black women soldiers donning gas masks in rooms filled with tear gas and climbing rope ladders as part of training, and yet, being asked to give up their seats in a theater.Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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The affected seats were manufactured between July 16, 2016, and Oct. 25, 2023, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA).Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!Clement Clarke Moore, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
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His cheeks were hollow, and a grizzled beard, which hadn’t seen a proper shave in weeks, made his face look older and all the more haggard.Lee Chang-dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
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McGowan is hidden among other travelers on the platform, and Bonnie can be seen looking into the face of each one eagerly, her ears perked up and her tail starting to wag as McGowan gets closer, the dog possibly picking up on her scent.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Other than being four-legged and having a long tail, the gorgonopsian wouldn’t have looked very doglike, Angielczyk said.Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
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This was all done with a bum wrist, which posed as an inconvenience to him at times.Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2024
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Tommy, left to prosecute the case against Rusty, has inherited a bum gig.Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024
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Here, Count Orlick (an utterly transformed and unrecognizable Bill Skarsgard), is anything but a looker, a towering slithery freak with long, icicle-like talons as thick as a rump roast, whose Romanian accent is saddled with Darth Vader-like breathing issues.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2024
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Male common wombats have been observed aggressively chasing females and leaving deep, painful bites on their rumps, puncturing their skin.Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Use the angle of his posterior to approximate what his pelvis is doing and there’s obviously a difference in the underlying mechanics pre- and post-surgery.Eno Sarris, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
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The choreography and puppetry merge in such extraordinary spectacles as a graceful gazelle or a hyena scooting on its posterior.Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 21 Nov. 2024
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Located at the bottom of a deep, shaded gorge, one feels transported to the Adirondacks.Gary Stoller, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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At the bottom of that last one was written in small type the name of the man who had uttered that line.Catherine Porter, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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The entry point is the Dining Room, a two-deck affair that can seat 1,170 guests, which is located at the rear of decks 2 and 3.David Swanson, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
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Passengers in the rear are also treated to individual screens positioned on the back of each front seat.New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Breech.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breech. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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