equipoised; equipoising; equipoises
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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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 27 June 2025
People on both sides of the issue posited that, for all the claims of equipoise, the new rules at Harvard had been introduced with the goal of containing pro-Palestinian protest.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
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Noun
There’s been this delicate equipoise between Russia and the US for the majority of the Cold War, even though the number of weapons has come down a lot from its peak in the eighties.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 27 June 2025
People on both sides of the issue posited that, for all the claims of equipoise, the new rules at Harvard had been introduced with the goal of containing pro-Palestinian protest.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
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.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/equipoise. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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