posture
Example Sentences
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Rosengren said the committee’s current posture, which implies the next move is more likely to be a cut, has grown harder to defend given the shocks the economy is encountering.
She opens the door but guards the entryway with her body, a posture of suspicion.
From Literature
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"This activity is part of broader defensive efforts to establish and strengthen a forward defensive posture," the military said.
From Barron's
United felt the German giants were posturing and would let Sancho leave regardless.
From BBC
Yu Ji’s cement sculptures take the shape of contorted human bodies—not uncomfortable but limberly twisted and folded—that are missing limbs; their contrasting materials and postures at once suggest permanence and evanescence.
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