fetal position
noun
: a position (as of a sleeping person) in which the body lies curled up on one side with the arms and legs drawn up and the head bowed forward and which is assumed in some forms of psychic regression
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Someone had put Pace’s body in three garbage bags before stuffing her in the suitcase in the fetal position, with her ankles shackled to her wrist and arm, Wamp described.
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Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 23 Jan. 2025
The slab revealed so much awfulness, later confirmed through forensic anthropology: the bones of a girl, lying in the fetal position, hands and feet bound together by an extension cord also wrapped around her neck.
—Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
She was balled up tight in a fetal position, her backpack shielding her as stones, dirt and granite chunks, some as large as bricks, rained down.
—Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
Another video appeared to show a group ganging up on a woman lying on the ground in the fetal position while others attempted to break up the crowd.
—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
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Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 23 Jan. 2025
The slab revealed so much awfulness, later confirmed through forensic anthropology: the bones of a girl, lying in the fetal position, hands and feet bound together by an extension cord also wrapped around her neck.
—Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
She was balled up tight in a fetal position, her backpack shielding her as stones, dirt and granite chunks, some as large as bricks, rained down.
—Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
Another video appeared to show a group ganging up on a woman lying on the ground in the fetal position while others attempted to break up the crowd.
—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Fetal position.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetal%20position. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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