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as in patient
accepting pains or hardships calmly or without complaint
after waiting six years for permission to immigrate to the U.S., the family is stoic about a six-month postponement
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as in calm
not feeling or showing emotion
at her husband's funeral she remained stoic, and only a few imagined the depth of her grief
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Recent Examples of stoic
His determination and stoic unflappability were always the difference.
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Sean Woods,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2026
Refs opted to disregard the blatant flagrant foul and the usually stoic Brunson erupted, chasing after the officials before turning on his heel in a fury and returning to the bench.
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Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
Brunson, stoic throughout the entire championship run, broke down in tears as his father Rick, who’s a Knicks assistant coach, celebrated on the sidelines.
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Tom Tapp,
Deadline,
13 June 2026
Brunson was always stoic, never letting the game’s emotions affect his play.
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Cj Moore,
New York Times,
13 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for stoic
Sean Woods,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2026
Refs opted to disregard the blatant flagrant foul and the usually stoic Brunson erupted, chasing after the officials before turning on his heel in a fury and returning to the bench.
—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
Brunson, stoic throughout the entire championship run, broke down in tears as his father Rick, who’s a Knicks assistant coach, celebrated on the sidelines.
—
Tom Tapp,
Deadline,
13 June 2026
Brunson was always stoic, never letting the game’s emotions affect his play.
—
Cj Moore,
New York Times,
13 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for stoic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stoic
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Be patient with kids and romantic partners, because squabbles might arise.
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Reducing friction often comes down to simple improvements such as online scheduling, prompt follow-up and easy access to key patient information.
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To alleviate some of the security concerns in metropolitan areas and calm citizens' fears, the United States housed prisoners in military installations and federal facilities throughout the South and Southwest.
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Clark seized on a more gentle course — slightly calmer and still soft with receptive greens — by pulling away late to reach six-under-par through 16 holes.
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Because SpaceX's publicly tradable float remains small compared with its total market capitalization, even a modest index weighting could require meaningful purchases from passive investment vehicles.
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During the company’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call Friday, CFO Sean McCabe said Cineverse had shifted from 50-50 joint venture partner to passive minority stakeholder.
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But the picture also feels stolid and one note.
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At the end of the eighteenth century, the West’s power brokers, eager to exude stolid republican virtue, abjured decoration and ornament, sparking what the British psychologist John Flügel called the Great Masculine Renunciation.
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Richards gave millions of dollars to the cult, Eternal Values, while living a double life as both a globe-trotting supermodel and obedient cult member, as reported in a recent story in The Hollywood Reporter.
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The Flaws are the typical employees of a German government office – quiet, obedient and spectacularly bad at their jobs.
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Unlike the coolly impassive Pop artists, the Who weren’t afraid to get personal, or to let their art echo the anxious, kinky, maladjusted yammering in their own heads.
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Her face remained impassive even as tears formed and began to travel down her cheek.
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The story of children financially supporting their immigrant parents can feed into the myth of the Asian American model minority, which, in part, stereotypes Asian Americans as obedient, hard-working and uncomplaining.
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Queen Elizabeth II was formal, interested, uncomplaining, and always respectful.
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Shinichi Atobe’s arresting house and techno beams with inimitable candor, built from bright, phlegmatic loops that run on an eccentric internal logic.
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Kunzweiler, a phlegmatic, gray-haired career prosecutor a generation older, prized the finality of a jury verdict — and the punishment that went with it.
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“Stoic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stoic. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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