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Example sentences for: poised

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"Washington Post : An emotional but poised first lady announces the death of the president.
In a Postal Service poised to meet competition, considerably more effort would be directed toward meeting published standards and toward measuring the service achieved.
Wait, maybe I'd better switch to The Matrix , which made $37 million in its first week and seems poised to become a phenomenon.
Millions of people, especially New Yorkers, are poised, ready, waiting, eager to move back into the city, if only ...
Now with the genomic revolution, we are poised on a new threshold of discovery, in that it is finally feasible to begin to identify the genes that are responsible for such complicated cellular processes.