Example Sentences

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Even if the move by China is posturing, analysts say it is noteworthy.

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025

"It is posturing parliament at its worst," one told me, having read the Privileges Committee report.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2023

But everyone in “Hotter Than Egypt” is posturing.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2022

He is "posturing," rather than revealing his true intentions.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2021

This gentleman of music whose fingers have for twenty years absorbed the souls of Beethoven and Sarasate, Liszt and Moussorgski, this aristocrat of the catgut is posturing sardonically before the three bored fates.

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben