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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
equipoise .
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Examples
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Mankind is looking now for freedom of life, not for equipoises of power.
Why We Are at War : Messages to the Congress January to April 1917 Woodrow Wilson 1890
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He channeled America’s exceptionalist fervor in January 1917, when he claimed to transcend politics-as-usual by playing peacemaker between the warring alliances, insisting that “Americans set up a new nation in the high and honorable hope . . . [to] show mankind the way to liberty,” and that “[m]ankind is looking now for freedom of life, not for equipoises of power.”
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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He channeled America’s exceptionalist fervor in January 1917, when he claimed to transcend politics-as-usual by playing peacemaker between the warring alliances, insisting that “Americans set up a new nation in the high and honorable hope . . . [to] show mankind the way to liberty,” and that “[m]ankind is looking now for freedom of life, not for equipoises of power.”
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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He channeled America’s exceptionalist fervor in January 1917, when he claimed to transcend politics-as-usual by playing peacemaker between the warring alliances, insisting that “Americans set up a new nation in the high and honorable hope . . . [to] show mankind the way to liberty,” and that “[m]ankind is looking now for freedom of life, not for equipoises of power.”
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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