- present participle of position.
positioning
Example Sentences
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Chevron CVX 0.56%increase; green up pointing triangle and other U.S. energy companies are nearing deals to invest billions of dollars in Venezuela’s oil fields, positioning President Trump for a win after months of slow negotiations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
When positioning in futures markets starts to look stretched in either direction, it could signal that a reversal is imminent.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Precise spacecraft positioning is also essential for distributed science missions, where measurements collected from several locations in space must be accurately aligned.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
OpenAI’s enterprise ambitions are stretching to ad teams, and the company is hiring a San Francisco-based head of ads enterprise marketing to shape that positioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
I go to Goodwill, which I am curious about since I know from past research it has been positioning itself nationwide as the ideal employer for the postwelfare poor as well as the handicapped.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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