posture
noun
the relative disposition of the parts of something.
have postured
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present perfectof posture.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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They have convened beneath the Statehouse dome, they have debated at length, they have postured and come up with nifty little sound bites that will preserve them in the annals of legislative history.
From Washington Times ● May 3, 2017
And pray believe That rank ambitions are your own, not mine; That though I have postured as your enemy, And likewise Alexander's, we are one In interests, have in all things common cause.
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
So many, still living or recently dead, have postured so well that it is hard to say what will be left when they have been discounted at the Bank of Posterity.
From A Novelist on Novels by Walter Lionel George
