It's sometimes struck

The answer

POSE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the POSE answer page.

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for POSE

Every other clue in this collection answered by POSE, most used first.

• Sit for a portrait - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
• Model's stance - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Sit - used 37 times, most recently in 2020
• Sit for a photo - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Stance - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Model - used 33 times, most recently in 2024
• Do some modeling - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Prepare to be shot - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
• Affectation - used 27 times, most recently in 2020
• Prepare to be photographed - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Pretense - used 23 times, most recently in 2020
• Prepare for a selfie - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Sit for an artist - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Put forward - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Prepare for a photo - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• It may be struck - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
• Ask - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Something to strike - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Propound. - used 13 times, most recently in 1991
• False front - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Attitude - used 11 times, most recently in 2010
• Attitudinize - used 11 times, most recently in 2006
• Sit for a picture - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Sit for a shot - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• Get ready for a selfie - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Mug for the camera - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Put forth - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• Sit (for) - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Ask, as a question - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Present - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Put forth, as a question - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Raise, as a question - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Strike a stance - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Work as a model - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Masquerade (as) - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

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• "Now it's clear!" - ISEE, used 85 times
• "It's ___ real!" - BEEN, used 66 times
• "It's my turn" - IMUP, used 48 times
• "It's a Sin to Tell ___" - ALIE, used 46 times

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