equipoised; equipoising; equipoises
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Examples of equipoise in a Sentence
Noun
when participating in any dangerous sport, one should maintain an equipoise between fearless boldness and commonsense caution
her frugality is a much-needed equipoise to her husband's spendthrift ways
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Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 15 Sep. 2023
Contra earlier models there isn't a monotonic decrease in the rate of adaptation as a function of complexity, but rather an increase until to an equipoise, before a subsequent decrease.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2010
Rather than simply making assumptions about what the best next steps are, each employer and employee should look to deliberately evaluate and understand the pros, cons, and points of equipoise of their specific business environments, and then develop a dynamic approach to shape new best practices.
—Bob Kulhan, Forbes, 3 June 2021
In many species there is an equipoise of relatedness (e.g., philopatric frogs).
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2012
The frequency of the allele is balanced at the equipoise between the proportion of people who are more susceptible to malaria if its proportion is too low and those who express sickle cell anemia if its proportion is too high.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2011
In this world, the golden mean does not exist and equipoise is a pipe dream.
—Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
But when the Shirtless Judo Cowboy barged into Crimea and Ukraine in 2014, the equipoise between Finland and Russia was suddenly upset.
—Stuart Stevens, Outside Online, 12 Dec. 2017
If you're faced with certain death equipoise just seems crazy to you as a patient.
—Mariette Dichristina, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2015
WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
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Noun
Related: Primary care physicians are learning how to fill the gaps in gender-affirming medicine
The principle of clinical equipoise holds that, when starting a trial, researchers must be uncertain about whether the control group or the treatment group is most likely to benefit.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 15 Sep. 2023
Contra earlier models there isn't a monotonic decrease in the rate of adaptation as a function of complexity, but rather an increase until to an equipoise, before a subsequent decrease.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2010
Rather than simply making assumptions about what the best next steps are, each employer and employee should look to deliberately evaluate and understand the pros, cons, and points of equipoise of their specific business environments, and then develop a dynamic approach to shape new best practices.
—Bob Kulhan, Forbes, 3 June 2021
In many species there is an equipoise of relatedness (e.g., philopatric frogs).
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2012
The frequency of the allele is balanced at the equipoise between the proportion of people who are more susceptible to malaria if its proportion is too low and those who express sickle cell anemia if its proportion is too high.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2011
In this world, the golden mean does not exist and equipoise is a pipe dream.
—Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
But when the Shirtless Judo Cowboy barged into Crimea and Ukraine in 2014, the equipoise between Finland and Russia was suddenly upset.
—Stuart Stevens, Outside Online, 12 Dec. 2017
If you're faced with certain death equipoise just seems crazy to you as a patient.
—Mariette Dichristina, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2015
Verb
The authors do a great job demonstrating that allowing respect for autonomy has, at a minimum, equipoise with the authoritarian approach, if not superiority, when considering a range of measures of health and happiness.
—WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
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equipoise
noun
equi·poise
ˈek-wə-ˌpȯiz,
ˈē-kwə-
1
: a state of balance : equilibrium
2
: a weight used to balance another weight
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