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posing

  • /ˈpəʊzɪŋ/ UK
  • /ˈpoʊzɪŋ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊzɪŋ

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of pose

noun posings

  1. The act by which something is posed. different posings of what was essentially the same question
  2. The act of one who poses or postures. However much the Ghanaian masses warmed to the traditional pomp and circumstance of his occasional public appearances, members of the elite did not take Nkrumah's posings as a national chief seriously.
  3. informal The act of portraying oneself artificially, usually to make oneself appear grander or to fit in with the crowd; pretense

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Closest in meaning: sitting, showing, arising, putting, pretending, creating, placing, submitting, implying, forming, asking, containing, representative, representing, raising, masquerading

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@misc{posing_2026,
  title = {posing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/posing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}