Noun
when participating in any dangerous sport, one should maintain an equipoise between fearless boldness and commonsense caution
her frugality is a much-needed equipoise to her husband's spendthrift ways
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People on both sides of the issue posited that, for all the claims of equipoise, the new rules at Harvard had been introduced with the goal of containing pro-Palestinian protest.—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025 The politicization of what should be bipartisan information places facts and fiction in ideological equipoise for many outside the medical community.—Brooke Redmond, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
Verb
The authors do a great job demonstrating that allowing respect for autonomy has, at a minimum, equipoise with the authoritarian approach, if not superiority, when considering a range of measures of health and happiness.—WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022 See All Example Sentences for equipoise
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