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position with regard to conditions and circumstances claims that the country's defense posture is weak

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Recent Examples of posture From a standing posture, rise up onto the balls of your feet. Sherri Gordon, Health, 4 Aug. 2025 But there are advantages to changing posture for certain movements. Matt Parrott, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2025 Yeah, and then the clothes would get me back into my posture, and my style of wearing all of this Polo. Essence, 1 Aug. 2025 The war in Ukraine has challenged that force posture. Jacquelyn Schneider, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for posture
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Noun
  • Despite discussion on the law itself, the school board refrained from taking a stance for or against the proposal, instead deciding to seek guidance from Kentucky's attorney general on how best to enact policies to evaluate offers like the one from LifeWise.
    Keely Doll, The Courier-Journal, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The California New Car Dealers Association has not taken a formal stance on whether the sticker program should be extended.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But Judge Kaplan wasn’t convinced the situation wouldn’t deteriorate again.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Given the pressures of ticketing and towing from law enforcement, the situation becomes nearly unbearable.
    Sean Geary, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • What Is Generational Financial Trauma Generational financial trauma refers to physical, psychological, and emotional inheritance of attitudes and beliefs that are influenced by financial stress and financial anxiety experienced by previous generations.
    Rahkim Sabree, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • These attitudes, ranging from judgments about individual behaviors to criticism of the chronically poor, are shaping policies that affect millions of people.
    Stephanie Armour, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The man reportedly has legal status in France and was known to police, according to local reports.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The elites of colonial society had to legislate difference in status, distance in proximity, and the alienation of affections between people of European, African and Indigenous ancestry.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • With the back-to-school deal, the pens come out to around 60 cents apiece.
    Isabel Garcia, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • He’s talked his way out of hostage situations and brokered deals to keep his colleagues alive.
    Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025

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“Posture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posture. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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