poise
Example Sentences
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“She was just so pleasant. She had this smile and this poise about herself. She was confident, but yet she wasn’t arrogant,” a family representative said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
Even though he’s already armed with the poise, accuracy and decision-making to thrive in an NFL-style offense, he recognized the need to start learning how to operate in unfamiliar spots.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
The design shows her guiding a lion, said to symbolise her poise and the strength of the British nation under her leadership.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
Navigating that kind of rupture would take poise, flexibility, and tact.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
Mozart’s emotional subtext, on the other hand, is disguised beneath the sheen of decorum and poise required of an eighteenth-century artisan.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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