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Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

Puzzling; putting to a stand; questioning closely.

posing

posing ‎(plural posings)

The act by which something is posed.
different posings of what was essentially the same question
The act of one who poses or postures.
- 1978, Norman W. Provizer, Analyzing the Third World: Essays from Comparative Politics
  However much the Ghanaian masses warmed to the traditional pomp and circumstance of his occasional public appearances, members of the elite did not take Nkrumah's posings as a national chief seriously.