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poise
noun as in self-composure, dignity
Strong matches
Example Sentences
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.
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.
“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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