Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Balanced; sedate: opposed to flighty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete, obsolete Firm; determined; fixed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pose . - adjective obsolete
firm ;determined ;fixed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective arranged for pictorial purposes
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Examples
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The place where I most often hear a false dilemma posed is on radio talk shows.
Waldo Jaquith - Point/counterpoint on hate-crime legislation. 2007
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Still, bureaucracies, even if they know they can't change, have to pretend they really want to, even if they don't, and so, with the question about Klein posed so clearly, they fired Klein and hired Jautz, who has been running CNN's sister station, Headline News.
Michael Wolff: Even I Can't Change CNN Michael Wolff 2010
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Most people know that O'Neill lasts for years so the answer to that question posed is "Yes, duh."
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The question posed is not whether you agree with the article but rather is its theme contradicted by scientific findings?
A Biologos Position 2010
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Darwin posed a rhetorical question about the distinctiveness of species — which he then answered.
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She also spoke about the threat to Britain posed by terrorists trained in Somalia.
British Home Secretary Warns Against 'Mass Murder on the Streets of London' 2010
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Her account of the current situation regarding sexual reassignment surgery in Iran is posed from a complex stance in which this procedure is not uniquely Islamic or even religious, but rather stems from a larger history of medical sciences and constructions of homosexuality and gender “confusion” as pathology.
Be Like Others 2009
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Still, bureaucracies, even if they know they can't change, have to pretend they really want to, even if they don't, and so, with the question about Klein posed so clearly, they fired Klein and hired Jautz, who has been running CNN's sister station, Headline News.
Michael Wolff: Even I Can't Change CNN Michael Wolff 2010
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She also spoke about the threat to Britain posed by terrorists trained in Somalia.
British Home Secretary Warns Against 'Mass Murder on the Streets of London' 2010
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The question you posed is whether "a higher tax rate on beer would impact consumption."
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