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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 Spencer Platt/Getty Images The White House is hosting a summit on cryptocurrency on Friday, a first-of-its-kind event that is expected to highlight the significant shift in posture that the Trump administration is taking on crypto compared with its predecessors. Deepa Shivaram, NPR, 7 Mar. 2025 The Freedom Shield drills were scheduled to run from March 10 to March 20 to strengthen the US-South Korean alliance’s combined defense posture, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said earlier Thursday. Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025 Danielle nailed the posture: elbows slightly bent, chest and heart open and out facing the world. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025 The county must take an aggressive posture to clean up homeless encampments. John McCann, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for posture
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Noun
  • The stopgap measure to avert a shutdown largely extended current funding levels through the fiscal year, allowing Paul to argue that opposing it was actually the more conservative stance because the bill essentially greenlit Biden-era spending levels.
    Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Despite the liberal and progressive stances of modern filmmakers, their lack of creativity and originality reveals a fundamental contempt behind the many remakes assaulting the marketplace, from Dune to Snow White.
    Armond White, National Review, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Fixing the run defense can help all the other pieces fall into place and the collection of young defenders can take advantage of better situations.
    Paul Dehner Jr., The Athletic, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Let go of or change the dynamics of situations that are too demanding.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • How an Overly Sunny Demeanor Could Affect You Of course, if your exclusively positive attitude is rubbing others the wrong way, that doesn’t bode well for your relationships.
    Cathy Cassata, Health, 14 Mar. 2025
  • But the attitude of our coaches was, ‘Again, again — next goal, next goal’.
    Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But eight weeks in, the mass deportation effort has rapidly expanded to include immigrants whose application for legal status in the country is under review.
    Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2025
  • While the governing body announced the creation of 30 player development centres for the future, Forest Ladies’ application to keep their centre of excellence status was rejected.
    Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Hear ye, hear ye—the second annual Amazon Spring Sale has just begun, and with it, comes an avalanche of Korean beauty deals.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 18 Mar. 2025
  • That trip and a subsequent trade deal could dissipate the geopolitical headwinds.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025

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“Posture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posture. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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