I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pose a hazard (= be a possible hazard )
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It was not known whether radiation from the weapons posed any hazard to soldiers.
pose a question formal (= ask a question )
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He poses the question, ‘What should we teach our children?’
pose a risk (= might be dangerous )
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Climate change poses serious risks to the environment.
pose for the camera (= sit or stand in a position in order to be photographed )
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Can you pose for the camera?
pose/create a dilemma
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The difficult economic situation poses a dilemma for investors.
posed nude (= been photographed or painted while nude )
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Have you ever posed nude ?
pose/present a threat
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The rebels do not pose a serious threat to the armed forces.
present/pose a challenge (= be a difficult one )
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These changes pose a real challenge to farmers.
present/pose a problem (= cause it or make it have to be considered )
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A shortage of trained nurses is posing major problems.
present/pose an obstacle (= cause an obstacle to exist )
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Serious differences continue to present obstacles to an agreement.
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Our reliance on fossil fuels poses an obstacle to achieving these targets.
present/pose difficulties formal (= be something that is difficult to deal with )
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English spelling may present some difficulties for learners.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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The information-based organization will also pose its own special management problems.
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The same man apparently also posed as a deacon at a nearby Catholic parish but fled when confronted.
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Every type has a unique charm and each also poses a unique challenge to the angler.
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Turnover in personnel may also pose problems.
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But it also poses problems and dilemmas which occur in communications policy more widely.
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The labor market could also pose problems.
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Implementing the Patient's Charter also poses many contradictions for both parties.
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Minshuku also pose problems for westerners who wish to have a western-style cooked breakfast and coffee.
as
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In structuralist theory the language of criticism ends up posing as many problems as the language of literature.
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The question must therefore be posed as to how many Roman Catholic theologians have remained unteachable in this fundamental respect.
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Miss January and Miss July were posed as carefully to conceal as to reveal.
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The six normally spent their working week posing as nude models in the Manchester Regional College of Art.
■ NOUN
challenge
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The challenge which he poses is to accept or reject that foundation, to adopt or refuse to adopt that horizon.
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It also forced an awareness of the competitive challenges posed by life outside the cozy confines of farm and family.
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This puts theology in a much stronger position to accept the challenge posed by historians and philosophers.
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The need now was for urban policies that matched the new challenges posed by the economics of urban growth and decline.
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It dramatized the challenge of trying to pose as a progressive leader while maintaining a profiteering, corrupt political organization.
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Temperament and Activity People react in temperamentally different ways to the challenges posed by change.
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The challenges posed for schools are enormous.
danger
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Confusion between love and work is one danger posed by the collapse of the wall between the two.
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One of the most worrying aspects is the danger posed by irresponsible and loony left local authorities.
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The emphasis is less on an individual's inner resources than on the danger he or she poses to others.
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The main grounds appeared to be the danger which it might pose to the small Southern protestant minority by encouraging mixed marriages.
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Most of these people are conscious of the dangers posed by the growth of big corporations.
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Applying a balancing test, the court held that the danger posed by drug abuse outweighed the individual's expectation of privacy.
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How much danger would be posed to such pensions by some of Labour's high-inflation, high-spending policies?
difficulty
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It was all very well this fish menu, but it posed difficulties as most dishes had to be prepared today.
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In the early morning hours of 31 January, however, the order posed great difficulties .
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The chronic repeater Patients who repeatedly take overdoses pose considerable management difficulties .
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In the end, however, these drugs pose logistical difficulties for most poor countries because it is a high-maintenance therapy.
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Accordingly, monitoring the churning rule in practice poses significant difficulties for regulators.
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However, the interdependence of hardware and software poses formidable technical difficulties to running programs so transferred.
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Although these can be valuable instruments of environmental policy, the application of such requirements to imported products can pose significant difficulties .
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I advised Gaitskell that this requirement posed a real difficulty for the defence.
dilemma
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Yet these brighter prospects pose their own dilemma .
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When Joe was asked to join the First Family each year for Christmas dinner, it posed a dilemma .
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This deliberate emphasis on the young people's unreliable and hurtful past relationships poses a dilemma for residential workers.
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When a clinical situation poses a genuine moral dilemma , by definition no right answer exists.
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This posed a dilemma for him.
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Federal disinvestment posed a serious dilemma for distressed cities.
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This poses a dilemma for the Fed.
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But it also poses problems and dilemmas which occur in communications policy more widely.
hazard
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However, mats can themselves pose hazards , and it is as well if you are aware of these.
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When operated in wide expanses of water, away from other people, jet skis pose no hazard .
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The legislation stated that the plant posed serious environmental hazards and increased the risk of nuclear proliferation.
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Overloading a socket outlet can easily start a fire, and all those trailing flexes pose a serious trip hazard .
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They can pose a hazard to repair crews.
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Before tests can begin, the Food and Drug Administration must decide if the potatoes are likely to pose major safety hazards .
health
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Fears have been expressed by campaigners that the huge plant might pose serious health and social risks to people living nearby.
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The contamination does not pose any immediate public health threat because none of the seed has been planted.
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It is claimed that the new levels of pesticide do not pose a risk to health .
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Some fear that substances used in the process remain in the beans and could pose a health threat.
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The study stresses that the levels of caesium observed do not pose any risk to health .
photo
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In sports bars, they tout the splendid qualities of ice-brewing, while posing for photos and signing autographs.
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She was introduced to Jamie Lee Curtis and posed for photos with the actress' daughter.
photograph
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On one occasion she agreed to pose for photographs on the condition that she would then be left alone.
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I saw Kim Anh in her wedding dress, and the stiffly posed photographs .
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Then, one day, Wilkens saw a group of his peers posing for a photograph .
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Scarborough Group enticed internationally renowned playwright Alan Ayckbourn into posing for a press photograph while signing appeal letters.
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His men posed for photographs holding severed heads.
picture
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Although already gravely ill, she posed for this graduation picture just days before losing her battle against cancer.
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Grown men and women pose for pictures with a guy dressed as a giant pillow.
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She was appalled when he explained to her she would be required to pose in a picture frame.
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They posed for pictures with him in the tunnel outside the clubhouse.
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Some ask him to pose for pictures , others kid him about retiring.
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The artist, posed beside his picture , has moved during the exposure, paraphrasing the multiple-image effect of the painting.
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Like many mega-models, she's not content with just posing for pictures .
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Meanwhile, Sparky arrives, does interviews and poses for a picture with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
problem
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Child instruction has always been hampered by the age-old problem posed by constraints of religion.
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Students will be asked to demonstrate competence with a problem posed in this area. b. Abstract / Scientific Mathematics.
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An interesting methodological and theoretical problem is posed by these contradictions.
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This is the essence of the problem that qualitative costs pose for struggling organizations: they are both undeniable and unmeasurable.
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Trial-and-error learning involves learning to perform a novel motor behaviour, which is used to solve a problem posed by nature.
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A number of problems is posed by Chesil Beach.
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For now, regulators suspect current credit problems pose a threat largely to bank earnings, rather than their survival.
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Even more seemingly intractable problems will be posed by attempts to store virtual reality.
question
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The following question can now be posed .
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In the wake of this development, however, the wrong questions are being posed .
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If this was verified, further questions were posed about how the information appeared, and if it was acceptable.
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The questions posed by group members after each presentation were insightful and demanding, and Fisher was pleased with the responses.
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These are not tremendously forceful answers to the thorny questions posed .
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Frail and wheelchair-bound, Mr Packard had a hard time hearing the questions posed by reporters.
risk
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I'd like to see indeterminate sentencing, so we can look at the risk they pose before we release them.
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Betty Helphrey wishes that her daughter, Debbie, had known more about the risks posed by herbal products.
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The risk I pose is for the kids.
threat
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This threat posed less of a distraction to the horses than I would have hoped.
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Meanwhile, the specific threats posed by the new Reagan administration were very real.
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But the gravest threat to health is posed by the total collapse of the economy, and the ensuing chronic poverty.
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Prosecutors determine the degree of threat offenders pose to the community and label them either high-risk, moderate-risk or low-risk.
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Faced with the threat it posed we somehow managed to break free of the old categories.
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Collectively, these opportunities and threats posed four main concerns for leaders: Managing assets and policies apart from people.
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The chaotic waters of the deep represented the threat they constantly posed .
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Further, more local, threats are posed for the sake of a few years' supply of raw materials.
■ VERB
ask
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Some ask him to pose for pictures, others kid him about retiring.
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At these events, stars often are asked to pose for pictures with the journalists.
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Now, I have never been asked to pose for the cover of a magazine.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In answer to a question posed by a congressman.
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In the end, however, these drugs pose logistical difficulties for most poor countries because it is a high-maintenance therapy.
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Moving away from the camera, Alvin posed beside Rose Garden tubeworms, providing unarguable proof of dimension.
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Ordering and analysing the output of the mass media obviously pose particular problems.
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The discrepancies between these different analyses pose a number of problems.
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These are not tremendously forceful answers to the thorny questions posed.
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Winning meant standing on a podium, smiling for cameras and posing for pictures.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
problem
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Several boxes and planks with blanket covers pose problems of height, area and weight.
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Natural rivers, however, pose problems as the speed of flow and amount of water are not constant.
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These may in turn pose problems as regards the maintenance of social order.
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But higher speeds than the normal three kilometres per hour pose problems getting on and off the moving walkway.
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But the terms of reference themselves pose problems , too.
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Certain plants, however, pose problems every year, and their complete removal may prove to be the only solution.
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Selecting which leadership groups to include poses problems .
■ VERB
adopt
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A capable woman, nobody's fool; but was she adopting a deliberate pose ?
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Two young men in their late teens mugged for the camera, adopting the pose of a couple of affable tough guys.
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From time to time one gains brief purchase, adopting the pose of a Grand Duchess.
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A kungfu practitioner can adopt any pose that suits the situation.
assume
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He assumed his rigid crouching pose , fists held out.
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And when they assume a pose of elegance, it often seems narcissistic.
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While assuming a pose of utmost civility and cordiality, Caroline is relentless in her campaign to undermine me.
hold
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For four minutes they held this agonising pose .
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When they were all lined up, they held that pose for a moment.
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It can also be the moment when a dancer moves into a pirouette and spins before holding a pose .
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My husband holds his pose tight against the railing.
strike
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This is shown vividly when, left finally alone, she strikes a dramatic pose of complete withdrawal from love and happiness.
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He struck the same pose on the sideline during overtime.
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And then, striking a dramatic pose she announced that she was terribly ashamed.
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They strike beautiful poses that could go unaltered into glossy magazines but tell us little about them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
strike a pose/attitude
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Sometimes, striking an attitude against an Italianate blue sky, Wandsworth looked magnificent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He shed the pose of the sophisticated lawyer and became his real self at last.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the odds are that even those women who appear impermeable to pain are suffering great hurt behind their face-saving pose .
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Not all poses are suitable for everyone.
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On her travels she's there with a goofy grin and a different pose for every occasion.
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Rather than pose it as a question of culture, however, they tackled it - often very productively - in terms of ideology.
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She was not a looker, but her Hard Number pose turned him on somehow.
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Try to experience the pose while you draw it.