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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an equipoise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a state of balance or equilibrium between two opposing forces or elements.
Example: "In the debate, the speaker maintained an equipoise between the two sides, ensuring that both perspectives were fairly represented."
Alternatives: "a balance" or "an equilibrium".
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So I think we're reaching, maybe, an equipoise in crime.
The result is a supple, measured lyricism that avoids selfindulgent extremes, an equipoise that the veteran Goode, as a successor to Rudolf Serkin, has developed entirely on his own.
He describes Franklin as being "an idealist of a very practical sort" -- a civic-minded entrepreneur, a common-sense-minded scientist, a man possessed of "an equipoise that nearly everyone who knew him noticed".
It entailed establishing an equipoise between big business and a national government, staffed by people as formidable in their way as the business tycoons were in theirs, that could exercise countervailing power as needed.
The birds looked like flaming winged arrows, an equipoise of extended neck and trailing legs, wing feathers jet black in the slanting afternoon sun, their beaks menacingly hooked, their honks baleful and lonely.
Because 3-D gels in the brain, the Captain spends his time seeking an equipoise where objects can fly around without making you dizzy — a synchronicity that has a technical name that sounds like a spy thriller: "the zero parallax setting".
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The Newer Versus Older Treatments for ADHD NOTAA) study is an equipoise-stratified randomized controlled trials comparing for treatments for ADHD: Methylphenidate Transdermal System (Daytrana), Lisdexamfetamine dimesylate (Vyvanse), OROS MPH (Concerta), and Mixed Amphetamine Salts Extended Release (Adderall XR).
The voters say they abhor it, but continue to create an uneasy equipoise in a system that works most efficiently with a majority.
White-and-red striped smokestacks, perversely graceful; gigantic ghostly white tanks shimmering in reflecting water; an eerie equipoise in compositions in which industrial sites are reflected in (polluted, poisoned) waters.
RCTs require a setting of equipoise, a situation where both patients and clinicians feel a genuine conscious uncertainty as to the optimal management strategy.
The majority of surgeons believed FAI is a cause of osteoarthritis with a surgical equipoise ratio (SER) of 7 6 39 for 'no', 'undecided' and 'yes', respectively (Fig. 2), although the belief that optimal debridement of FAI lesions prevented the development of osteoarthritis was more controversial, with an SER of 13:19:20 for 'no', 'undecided' and 'yes', respectively (Fig. 3).
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