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Recent Examples of stances
Hochul should use her improving political fortune and growing public disdain for the president’s regressive stances to break away from Trumpian energy policies and restore New York’s clean energy leadership in the new year.
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Anshul Gupta, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
Landlord efforts to dangle concessions in front of prospective tenants have helped to shove effective rents lower due to the aggressive stances of property owners that hunger for leasing deals.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
During the arraignment, demonstrators of opposite stances gathered outside the lower Manhattan courthouse, separated by a police barricade.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
Such suits allow robots to learn by directly mirroring a human operator’s movements, a standard approach for training humanoids in balance, coordination, and advanced actions such as combat stances or recovery motions.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
Kennedy also faced a contentious Senate hearing in September as Democrats and Republicans pressured him over his vaccine stances.
—Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2025
The governors’ orders regarding CAIR have also coincided with unprecedented action from the White House seeking to regulate nonprofits by threatening to remove their financial incentives over political stances.
—Surina Venkat, The Hill, 26 Dec. 2025
The 30-year-old investor has made a name for himself with fiery campaign videos on social media, as well as taking hard-line stances against immigration, even legal immigration.
—Jim Defede, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
Turns out, his stances are pretty popular in a conservative state like Missouri, according to polling shared with Semafor.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 19 Dec. 2025
Anshul Gupta, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
Landlord efforts to dangle concessions in front of prospective tenants have helped to shove effective rents lower due to the aggressive stances of property owners that hunger for leasing deals.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
During the arraignment, demonstrators of opposite stances gathered outside the lower Manhattan courthouse, separated by a police barricade.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
Such suits allow robots to learn by directly mirroring a human operator’s movements, a standard approach for training humanoids in balance, coordination, and advanced actions such as combat stances or recovery motions.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
Kennedy also faced a contentious Senate hearing in September as Democrats and Republicans pressured him over his vaccine stances.
—Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2025
The governors’ orders regarding CAIR have also coincided with unprecedented action from the White House seeking to regulate nonprofits by threatening to remove their financial incentives over political stances.
—Surina Venkat, The Hill, 26 Dec. 2025
The 30-year-old investor has made a name for himself with fiery campaign videos on social media, as well as taking hard-line stances against immigration, even legal immigration.
—Jim Defede, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
Turns out, his stances are pretty popular in a conservative state like Missouri, according to polling shared with Semafor.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 19 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stances
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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People incorrectly assumed others in their party held extreme views about wolves, and those assumptions in turn shaped their own attitudes toward the species.—
Justin Angle,
The Conversation,
6 Jan. 2026
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The report reflects changing attitudes about health and new tools that Americans are increasingly relying upon to make meaningful improvements to their well-being.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Stances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stances. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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