equipoise
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As Sam Sacks writes of this posthumously published collection of short stories, “Segal never loses her equipoise, or her sense of humor, in these most extreme confrontations with mortality.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
This equipoise held for four very productive years, but there comes a moment in all love stories when one partner gets fidgety and starts to pull away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025
In medicine, when there is genuine uncertainty as to whether the benefits of a treatment outweigh the harms - called equipoise - some ethicists argue there's a moral obligation to scientifically study such treatments.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2024
Often we think that if we are not happy, it's our problem, and we just have to show more grit, or the new terminology, more "mindfulness," and we'd achieve greater equipoise.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2023
Certainly much of Katherine’s equipoise came from her father, Joshua.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
It’s the sort of thing those who’ve avoided playing Minecraft but still find it intriguing should pay attention to—an exquisite, LEGO-like builder deftly equipoised between structured and freeform play.
From Time ● Dec. 19, 2016
July 3.—Whoever wishes to know how, in Mr. Seward's mind, right and law are equipoised, should read the correspondence between the State Department and the Attorney-General in the case of a criminal runaway from Saxony.
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
He will be a self-centered, equipoised, and ever master of himself.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
When the brain is wearied by the passions, appetite and digestion are almost gone….There is nowhere perfect health, save when the passions are well regulated, harmonized, and equipoised.
From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele
The “kettle” was equipoised by lead fixed round its mouth.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
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