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- noun Plural form of
posturing .
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Examples
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I condemn their utterances, "he told journalists in Pune, while dubbing their posturings as part of the
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I condemn their utterances, "he told journalists in Pune, while dubbing their posturings as part of the
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It's time for those in elected positions to actually represent their constituents rather than make right wing posturings.
Sessions walks fine line about diversity on the Supreme Court 2010
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Meanwhile, the leading lights, as it were, of the Republican presidential field remain mired in the posturings of the past.
William Bradley: Darwinian: Obama Goes Post-Iraq in Oz, Republicans Race to the Past William Bradley 2011
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Okay — seriously, amid all the posturings and opinions about why the iPad was a great thing or a terrible thing, came this post from Daring Fireball: The Kids are All Right.
Web Teacher › Useful Links: use :focus, some new product, ad culture 2010
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"Clearly, our Lord Jesus Christ demands his faithful to go beyond empty gestures and mere posturings, and put real action into their faith," Monsignor Ernesto Joaquin said in a prepared statement.
Birth-Control Debate Roils Philippines James Hookway 2011
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Come on, there is a lot of generalizations here that are made because of political posturings.
My Kind of Democrat, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Like the work of his younger though more mild-mannered imitators John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage, Mr. Condo's illustrative and formless portrait paintings aren't works of art so much as strategies, postmodern posturings that convey little or no sense of how a figure and its distortions fuse to create a living presence.
Mind Games for the Surreal Lance Esplund 2011
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However from the posturings from your tribal chiefs [insert your favorite joke about "swine fever" and earmarks here] and, even more surprisingly, the outpourings from the various clans of space enthusiasts; indicate to this layperson that there is a long way to go.
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As with all Picasso's solipsistic posturings, there's also something faintly comic to this piece - a comedy he or it almost seems to acknowledge.
Gopnik's Daily Pic: Picasso's "Arm" at the Hirshhorn Blake Gopnik 2010
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