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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 The ensemble, through drag, is meant to send up the postures of masculinity. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 26 June 2025 Pilates focuses on core strength, posture, and precise movements, while yoga focuses on flexibility, balance, mindfulness, and spirituality. Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 25 June 2025 Such shifts would allow Washington to update its global force posture without hasty changes that surprise allies and create security gaps leading to deterrence failures. Rebecca Lissner, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025 Leavitt said on Fox News, adding that the administration's military posture remains unchanged. Amanda Castro hannah Parry shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for posture
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Noun
  • The company also refused to apologize for CBS’ reporting or edits, a stance to protect its journalistic ethics and 1st Amendment rights.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2025
  • Some are taking a harder stance on age compliance checks for alcohol sales.
    Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • So, the situation in Hungary is that no one knows what the rules actually are.
    Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 8 July 2025
  • The situation is so dire that to stay open, the shelter is asking Caldwell to increase its funding by 700%.
    Amaia Gavica July 8, Idaho Statesman, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Unable to keep pace, academic administrations largely stopped trying to control students’ use of artificial intelligence and adopted an attitude of hopeful resignation, encouraging teachers to explore the practical, pedagogical applications of A.I.
    Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • Perhaps the attitude is that, as the tech sector caused the problem and is profiting from it, the tech sector should sort it out.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • How much does Rockaway see and treat the film festival as a business beyond its status as a creative and artistic endeavor?
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
  • In her decision, Brailsford said the plaintiffs will likely show there is no federal requirement to verify immigration status for people to receive the medication, and Idaho does not have the ability to add that requirement for those in the country without documentation.
    Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Look for Alphabet to deploy the Buy and Link defensive strategies — vacuuming up promising AI advertising startups and offering discounting and packaging deals to extant search customers that want to experiment with the Google AI advertising platform.
    Forrester, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • In the past couple of years Sony has made enormous investments in Queen and Pink Floyd catalogs — $1.1 billion and $400 million respectively — while Primary Wave made a $100 million deal for 50% of Notorious B.I.G.’s holdings.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 July 2025

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“Posture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posture. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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