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• v  introduce
• v  assume a posture as for artistic purposes
  We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often
• v  pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
  She posed as the Czar's daughter
• v  behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
• v  put into a certain place or abstract location
• v  be a mystery or bewildering to
• a  arranged for pictorial purposes

• Three years into the Iraq war, PTI posed the question to a wide array of experts and thinkers.
• The avatar of fascism posed the century's greatest threat to democracy and redefined the meaning of evil forever.
• But that does not mean that the threat posed by Iran is insignificant.

• present
• pose
• model
• sit
• posture
• impersonate
• personate
• put
• set
• place
• position
• lay
• perplex
• vex
• stick
• get
• puzzle
• mystify
• baffle
• beat
• bewilder
• flummox
• stupefy
• nonplus
• gravel
• amaze
• dumbfound

• unposed

News & Articles

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• Cops seek home invasion team
  Police are hunting for a pack of bandits who posed as cops to burst into an upper Manhattan home and tied up three people as they ransacked the home.
  June 12, 2013 - New York Daily News
• Jon Rubinstein on HP Buying Palm: ‘Talk About a Waste’
  The question posed to Rubinstein: “Looking back, if you could do things over again with the rollout of webOS, would you do anything differently?” Rubinstein gave the above answer, then continued: Not that I had any choice because when you sell a company you don’t get to decide that. Obviously, the board and shareholders decide that. If we had known they were just going to shut it down and never ...
  June 12, 2013 - Techland
• Man used webcam to show genitals to cop who was posing as 12-year-old, police say
  Undercover detectives posed as a 12-year-old girl online and chatted with a 37-year-old Jefferson man
  June 12, 2013 - The Star-Ledger

Quotes

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• Henry Waxman in Washington Post (blog)
  The common feature of these five decisions is that they posed a trade-off between cost and well safety,the letter says.
• Michael Hayden in Inquirer.net
  Beyond their lack of intelligence value -- as the interrogation sessions had already been exhaustively detailed in written channels -- and the absence of any legal or internal reason to keep them, the tapes posed a serious security risk,...
• Robert Gates in Los Angeles Times
  The report raises serious questions about the degree to which the entire Department of Defense is prepared for similar incidents in the future,Gates said. "It reveals shortcomings in the way the department is prepared against threats posed...