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Common collocations with poised in American Collocation

poised adjective

US /pɔɪzd/

breakthrough
comeback
expansion
growth
success
victory

The business is – or should be – poised for explosive growth.

the brink of
the edge of
the threshold of

In short, the climate system as we know it is poised on the edge of a profound transition.