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claims that the country's defense posture is weak
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Recent Examples of postures
To build their robot hand, the engineers began by creating a digital library of human hand grasp postures.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2026
The multi-adaptive seat belts can optimize themselves for different types of crash conditions, body types, and even driving postures.
—Joel Feder, The Drive, 21 Jan. 2026
This allows the head and neck to remain supported across different working and resting postures.
—New Atlas, 13 Jan. 2026
And that’s also a place where those familiar postures — the brooding cowboy, the angsty writer — start to dissolve.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
Sachs films the pair in a variety of places and postures—sitting face to face in her living room, standing in the kitchen, lying down on her bed.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2025
The two sides, now locked into competitive postures, might also simply grow exasperated with each another and announce new trade restrictions out of the blue.
—Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
Repetitive motions, awkward postures, and constant strain add up, often ending in costly musculoskeletal injuries that take weeks to heal.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
The cascade effect of those events has led to a palpable shift in corporate security postures, with a flood of new independent threat assessments and protective measures.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2026
The multi-adaptive seat belts can optimize themselves for different types of crash conditions, body types, and even driving postures.
—Joel Feder, The Drive, 21 Jan. 2026
This allows the head and neck to remain supported across different working and resting postures.
—New Atlas, 13 Jan. 2026
And that’s also a place where those familiar postures — the brooding cowboy, the angsty writer — start to dissolve.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
Sachs films the pair in a variety of places and postures—sitting face to face in her living room, standing in the kitchen, lying down on her bed.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2025
The two sides, now locked into competitive postures, might also simply grow exasperated with each another and announce new trade restrictions out of the blue.
—Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
Repetitive motions, awkward postures, and constant strain add up, often ending in costly musculoskeletal injuries that take weeks to heal.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
The cascade effect of those events has led to a palpable shift in corporate security postures, with a flood of new independent threat assessments and protective measures.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for postures
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The study found Musk's public political stances also helped to increase the sales of other automakers' electric and hybrid vehicles by 17-22% as drivers who were opposed to the CEO's politics fled to other EV manufacturers.—
Keith Laing,
USA Today,
29 Jan. 2026
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Bottom line, analysts appeared to adopt fairly divisive stances towards Tesla’s future.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2026
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This makes vocal communication a reliable way — if not the only way — for dolphins to maintain contact with one another, especially when traveling, hunting or navigating social situations.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Such vague commands, the court said, leave agents guessing how to respond during fast-moving protest situations and expose them to possible contempt sanctions.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Jan. 2026
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In terms of public attitudes to these vehicles in Europe, the picture is murky.—
Laurie Winkless,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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There are seven characters in the play but at least seven different romantic couplings, most of them conducted with proper British attitudes and stiff upper lips.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
27 Jan. 2026
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There’s been a couple of fun AI pictures.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2026
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Posters of rock bands were replaced with pictures of Serbian saints and stately World War I generals.—
Aleksandar Hemon,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Facilitating business deals Large business delegations often accompany national leaders when making state visits.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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Keep scrolling for more can’t-miss outlet deals available at Wayfair.—
Ali Faccenda,
PEOPLE,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Postures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postures. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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