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Meanings of poised in English
In full control of your faculties.
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Examples for "collected"
Examples for "collected"
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Data are collected within several countries and over a number of years.
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Data were collected regarding patient and physician experience, and health service use.
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For each case clinical, hospital course, treatment and outcome data were collected.
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It previously collected contact information, travel history, family information, and prior addresses.
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We collected suicidal thought using a question from the Patient Health Questionnaire-9.
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So long as my thumb tatters merely the margin, I am quite equanimous.
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Reesa, equanimous to a fault, reached for her purse and pulled out a few dollars.
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[The writer seems to contradict himself here, having just boasted of possessing a pretty equanimous disposition.
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As Margaret's parents would visit, their home would need a self-contained apartment.
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Fifty-seven percent of respondents said they supported freedom camping for self-contained vehicles.
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They're self-contained operations with standard ways of trading information with each other.
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It's unclear whether Make will continue to operate as a self-contained operation.
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According to specifications on these systems, even the environmental systems are self-contained.
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Microbial community structures did not differ between staff-collected and self-collected nasal swabs.
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These swabs were to evaluate how self-collected swabs compared with clinician-collected swabs.
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In addition, participants self-collected nasal swabs at home four weeks later.
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Conclusion: In our study the concordance between health professional and self-collected swab was excellent.
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Her patience and steadiness are quite extraordinary however even in the less self-collected moments.
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Riley was the most self-possessed and solemnly deliberate person in the republic.
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In this season of general panic, Gasca alone appeared calm and self-possessed.
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Again the clear glow in her cheek, the self-possessed Fanny of old.
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Ernest has none of my fluctuations; he is always calm and self-possessed.
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The old mother alone was perfectly self-possessed and up to the occasion.
Usage of poised in English
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The Health Minister is poised to sack the Waikato District Health Board.
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International markets, especially emerging markets, are poised to do better, he said.
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They were poised just outside the town, not far above the sea.
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The Government is poised to introduce plain packaging legislation for tobacco products.
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Brown's earlier indictments were poised to become a First Amendment test case.
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It was poised to rise nearly 3 basis points on the week.
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It has a relatively young population and it poised for global trade.
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One of them seems poised to understand what happened here, long ago.
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Oppenheim was poised to sign a deal on the matter within days.
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This week, however, Melania Trump is poised to step into the limelight.
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Developing countries, in particular, are poised to see their urban populations soar.
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Tahiti-infos said another two members were also poised to leave Flosse's party.
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Malnutrition rates, already double those of last year, are poised to leap.
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That included the list of other banks that were poised to sign.
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Duncan held out his right hand, his left poised above his gun.
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Abe is poised to nominate the new governor in the coming days.
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Poised across language varieties
Ireland
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New Zealand
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United States of America
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