position
Example Sentences
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He led all rushers with 69 yards, however, and in the waning moments had his team in position to score the game’s only offensive touchdown.
From Los Angeles Times
The key discovery involved carefully arranging parts of the plastic's chemical structure so they sit in just the right positions to begin breaking apart when triggered.
From Science Daily
Pyrrhic economic gains and empty moral positioning mean less to Somaliland’s leaders than the necessity of determining their own destiny.
The head of the largest U.S. investor in Venezuela is in pole position to take advantage of greater U.S. sway over the country, where it has operated for more than a century.
A spokesman for Coefficient Giving said that, because there is disagreement about which AI threats are most pressing, it avoids “taking institutional positions that might imply a settled view about the right approach.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
