- present participle of position.
positioning
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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
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
The speech sent a message that Carney was positioning himself "as an international leader with a different, credible vision," Tellier said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 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
It was a slide projector I’d made by mounting a lightbulb on a piece of wood and positioning wooden plates with lenses from magnifying glasses in front of it.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
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