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[pohzd]

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adjective

(of a photograph, portrait, etc.) taken or made by first placing the subjects in a particular position or attitude.
The only posed photographs are the formal ones following the wedding ceremony.
Antonyms: , ,
asserted, stated, or put forward.
A panel of invited experts will present scientific evidence pertinent to the posed questions.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of pose.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of posed¹

First recorded in 1825–35; pose ¹ + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; pose ¹ + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

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Police are hunting for the suspect, Vance Luther Boelter, who wore a latex mask and posed as an officer to shoot the victims at their homes in suburban Minneapolis, before escaping on foot.

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After an evening with the consul general, the trophy was carried a couple of miles east to a PSG pop-up store on Melrose, where it posed for more selfies than Taylor Swift.

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Foreign policy analysts routinely, and often wildly, exaggerate the threat level posed by anti-American or anti-Western forces, presenting them as shadowy hordes ready to overrun civilization at any moment.

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The Israeli military said troops fired warning shots at a group they believed posed a potential threat, and an aircraft struck one person who moved towards them.

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To see how honest the parks were being with potential new customers, our team posed as a family interested in buying the Thompsons' former lodge, and recorded the conversation.

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