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View definitions for poised

poised

adjective as in charismatic

adjective as in self-confident

adjective as in self-possessed

adjective as in unruffled

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For now, according to Politico, lawmakers seem poised to extend the 2018 Farm Bill for another year, likely attaching it to a must-pass spending measure or a continuing resolution.

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D’Hérelle, who had been poised to live and work in Georgia, then disappears from her narrative too; he died, largely forgotten, of cancer, in Paris in 1949.

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“I think it’s a healthy dose of both,” says Bear, poised at her piano.

"Collectively, weeds are adapting quicker than our ways to manage them. Climate change appears poised to put this evolution on a faster track," he said.

President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York hush-money case is poised to be postponed — potentially until after the presidency — as Trump’s lawyers contest that his recent election victory requires that the case be dismissed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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