poise

Some evidence exists that she didn’t handle the job with poise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Mr. Rushdie has unusual calamities to look back on, but he does so with astonishing poise and a resolutely dispassionate attitude.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Urbanie Lucero’s choreography and movement direction maintain the production’s graceful poise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Matthews called that poise Iamaleava’s greatest improvement since the duo arrived in Westwood last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

You can’t teach a baby to walk by explaining the matter to her logically—she has to learn the strange poise of walking by experience.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Then there’s that open, teeth-exposing, wonder-filled smile that poises sheer delight on the brink of a bottomless despair, two states of feeling that somehow both negate and enhance each other.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2019

Others include pacifiers with a part that poises a choking hazard to young children.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2016

Contrasting lives: Syrian caught in the middle CIA director faces quandary on clandestine service appointment Choosing permanent head of division poises an early quandary for John Brennan.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2013

As it poises for further immigration initiatives, U.S.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2010

The ill-made knight turned to his oldest friend, to the first person he had loved with his poises.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The stock is poised to gain 20% or more by the first quarter judging by technical indicators.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

TOKYO—The Bank of Japan is poised to keep interest rates at three-decade highs this week, pausing as it gauges the impact of prior tightening on inflation and growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The Bank of Japan is poised to keep interest rates at 1.25% this week to gauge the impact of prior tightening on inflation and growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

“Digger” “Jesse Eisenberg is poised to become the 21st century’s next great screenwriter. Martin McDonagh has already been anointed. Whoever wins, we all win.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Singer held the pen poised above the paper.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

But that hasn’t slowed down the scooter-makers: Both Bird and Lime have raised hundreds of millions in venture capital funding, poising the companies to continue to expanding across the country.

From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2018

The Greeley Fire Department determined the people had carbon monoxide poising and 22 people were taken to a hospital Saturday night.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2018

Last week a glittering aluminum Ceres took her place on the city's skyline, poising her twinkling magnificence on top of Chicago's tallest office pylon, the new 44-story, 609 ft.

From Time Magazine Archive

A white hedonist basking deliciously among South Sea Islanders and a sturdy Cape Codder poising his malicious harpoon over boiling seas, join incongruously in the popular impression of Herman Melville.

From Time Magazine Archive

I cracked my knuckles and grabbed the Player Two joystick with my left hand, poising my right hand over the Flap button.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline