How to pronounce poised
Listen to poised in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“poised” in real sentences
393 clips in the index · 137 American · 36 British · 7 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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perpetually poised to penetrate it.
TED-Ed · hear it here
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poised to reach this population.
NIH · hear it here
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the members poised to intervene.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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than they seem poised to do.
The Atlantic · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of poised. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.