poising

verb

present participle of poise
1
as in bracing
to prepare (oneself) mentally or emotionally the disgraced business executive poised herself for the difficult press conference

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2
as in hovering
to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air the falcon poised in the air for an instant before diving to attack its prey

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  1. bracing
  2. hovering
  3. fortifying
  4. floating
  5. readying
  6. sailing
  7. swimming
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  • Despite being a step-through, the Vienna exhibited little frame flex thanks to a small bracing bar at the bottom of the frame.
    — William Roberson, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Perhaps not for the fainthearted, this involves being gently slapped with oak branches in the sauna before dipping into a bracing cold plunge (rinse and repeat).
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2026
Definition of bracing
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  • With the global benchmark for oil prices now hovering near $100 per barrel, Ferreira warned that further escalation could push prices closer to $120—near the late-April high of $124 per barrel.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 23 July 2026
  • The stock is hovering at around $324 at the time of writing, down over 15 percent over the last five days and about 28 percent year to date.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 23 July 2026
Definition of hovering
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  • New Orleans residents prepared for Bertha's arrival by fortifying their properties with sandbags, and many boat owners in the region moved their vessels out of docks located along the coast to safer locations.
    — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 22 July 2026
  • Iran began fortifying the entrances and building a secure perimeter surrounding the entire mountain and Natanz in 2025, according to the Institute for Science and International Security.
    — Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
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  • Social media video posts showed the shirtless Disneyland employee leisurely floating on his back in the Rivers of America near the River Belle Terrace restaurant.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 24 July 2026
  • But their heads are huge and buoyant, so how do these cetaceans avoid floating up in their sleep?
    — Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 23 July 2026
Definition of floating
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  • Apple is readying its iPhone 18 family for release in September, and Greater China, as multinational corporations like to call it, accounts for upwards of 20% of Apple’s global revenue.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 16 July 2026
  • Apple is also rumored to be readying a foldable iPhone with a similar design, which could launch later this year.
    — Stevie Bonifield, The Verge, 15 July 2026
Definition of readying
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  • And Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) has struck ships sailing close to the Omani coastline.
    — Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Money, 19 July 2026
  • Among them are hundreds of thousands of families sailing aboard three Disney cruise ships, all homeported there.
    — Jack Kennedy, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2026
Definition of sailing
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  • The Menlo Park Fire Protection District received a call during the week of July 13 stating that a dog had entered a body of water and was swimming.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026
  • The East Palo Alto Police Department posted a separate video from the rescue that shows the dog swimming furiously with seagulls circling overhead and firefighters scooping him out of the murky water and swaddling him in towels.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026
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