posture
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Its formless body accommodated slouching, lounging or lying down, selling freedom from both conventional posture and the bourgeois living room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
They help us carry shopping, lift objects and maintain posture, all of which support independence.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Wing Cdr Ian Hart, who commands 29 Squadron, said the change in posture was "a recognition that the threat can come to us very, very easily in today's world".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Many severely underestimate the difficulty of Pilates or its high-intensity offshoots, which are built on low-impact movements that prioritize core strength, posture and slow burn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
I know that posture, those jeans, that casual cotton shirt.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Germany and Europe need to rethink our defensive postures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
More than 15 pleas to adopt Valerio, showing him in playful postures such as playing fetch and posing in a sunflower hat, remain live on Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
In a transformation this fundamental, those defensive postures carry real costs.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 18, 2025
"There appeared to be no helpful visual images of 'safe' versus 'unsafe' sling/carrier postures," she said, adding that "the NHS available literature provides no guidance or advice".
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2024
The source of the disagreement goes much deeper, however, involving conflicting attitudes toward government itself, competing versions of citizenship, differing postures toward the twin goals of freedom and equality.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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“Southern California is very uniquely postured to help NASA,” Glover said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
"These movements ensured that US forces remain postured, protected and ready to respond decisively for any emerging threat," he said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
“As announced in September 2023, the Department of Defense is postured to provide robust enabling support for the MSS, including planning assistance, information sharing, airlift, communications, and medical support,” Southern Command said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
Mr Austin told the committee in his opening statement that there has been a review of the chain of command process, saying the "system must be postured better" so this does not happen again.
From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024
With some you postured and with some you groveled and with some you were imperious.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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Police union officials rebuked Mamdani over the comments, accusing him of activist posturing that puts officers in a bad position.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
There comes a time when one extols cinema’s virtues so fiercely that it feels like posturing.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
By throwing a naive character into this environment, what were you aiming to expose about the difference between posturing around these subcultures and the lived reality of them?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
"This isn't about political posturing," Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo, a Republican, said Monday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
“Mr. Jeffries, good to see you again,” she said, and he knew she wasn’t posturing, wasn’t pretending.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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