Synonyms for poised
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1. poisedadjective

   marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action

   "a gull in poised flight"; "George's poised hammer"

   Synonyms:
   collected, self-possessed, equanimous, self-contained, self-collected

   Antonyms:
   unbalanced, discomposed, imbalanced

2. collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessedadjective

   in full control of your faculties

   "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble"

   Synonyms:
   gathered, self-possessed, equanimous, collected, self-contained, self-collected

   Antonyms:
   imbalanced, discomposed, unbalanced

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1. List of paraphrases for "poised":

   prepared

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1. Edzard Overbeek as chief executive:

   I am very excited to have been chosen to lead this outstanding company at a very special point in time, the HERE location cloud is poised to be at the heart of new kinds of services that will genuinely change people's lives - everything from autonomous cars and smart cities to digitising enterprises.

2. Hans Kristensen:

   We have never been in a nuclear war where escalation is about to happen and early-warning systems are poised to look for signs of surprise nuclear strikes. In such a scenario, a decision by a military power to launch a conventional attack - but the adversary expects and mistakenly interprets it as a nuclear attack - could contribute to an overreaction that escalates the crisis.

3. Michael Caputo:

   Today, CDC has access to all the data it once had and more. National Healthcare Safety Network was unable to keep up with the fast-paced data collection demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, using this new, innovative and flexible collection mechanism, we have far more COVID-related real data, far faster, giving us increased capacity for life-saving projects like therapeutics distribution. And we are now poised to move to automated data collection for the use of every relevant expert at HHS, particularly The CDC.

4. Richard Horsey:

   The elections are poised to be the most credible since the 1950s and that's significant.

5. Patrick Yoes:

   Unfortunately, given the politics of the moment, we seem to be poised to undo more than a year’s worth of work toward common sense criminal justice reform. Demagoguery and scare tactics have jeopardized the future of these efforts and may well have derailed the negotiations.