poised
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That’s poised to exceed the 2,288 cases in all of 2025, which was the worst outbreak since 1991.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2026
And the charts, and history, suggest the win streak will remain alive as real-estate investment trusts look poised to have a banner month.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 1, 2026
As day breaks over Wimbledon tennis club, Rufus the hawk is poised, ready to protect the world-famous immaculate grass courts from flocks of greedy pigeons foraging for seeds.
From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026
Citi economists think fiscal policy deployment has emerged as the critical variable and is poised to accelerate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026
The mantelpiece held, in brave confusion, photographs, greeting cards, flowered mottoes, two silver candlesticks that held no candles, and a green metal serpent, poised to strike.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing poised
The Giver
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"Of Mice and Men"
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"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
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