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Recent Examples of Synonyms for placidness
Noun
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More than anyone, Resh Lakish would have been entitled to look back on a life of personal transformation and learning with great contentment.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
25 Oct. 2025 -
Chasing status, wealth, or others’ approval with your money almost always undermines independence and contentment.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Rather than nightlife, visitors come seeking quietude.—
Lisa Kadane,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Sep. 2025
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Coherence brings a quality of quietude to listening, clarity to perception and graceful power to action.—
Ginny Whitelaw,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Season 2 drops that air of placidity and adds spice, genuine horror and feeling to the proceedings.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
6 Aug. 2025
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Eagle, the best basketball game-caller in the sport, gave Prime Video a sense of calm that made watching Friday’s NBA on Prime opener between the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics feel comfortable.—
Andrew Marchand,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Today Colma's cemeteries are a peaceful island of calm among busy interstates, San Francisco’s airport and the bustle of Silicon Valley.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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As chairman Paraag Marathe said in his summer backing of Farke, the manager’s superpower is his calmness, his ability to take the sting out of a situation.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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What stood out on a visit was the relative quiet, a calmness that contrasted to the other side of the complex, where reporters hover in the briefing room and the double doors of the West Wing.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
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Haven Well Within advocates mindful living and serenity.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
31 Oct. 2025
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For Black women travelers seeking moments of serenity and wonder, this experience offers both in abundance.—
Essence,
Essence,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Silver Hugo for Best Sound goes to SOUND OF FALLING for its ability to echo, in both its silences and thunders, the constant hum of secrets passed from one generation to the next in the apparent domestic quiet that both conceals and reveals.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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In the quiet of the Sabbath morning when all the neighborhood was wrapped in slumber, some dastardly degenerate crept into the room, choked her to death, assaulted her criminally and left her bruised and bleeding body lying on the bed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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Ink merges into breast milk, tranquillity and space to think are filled with irritating barking, and Lawrence loses herself to the madness.—
Billie Melissa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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The balance between adventure and tranquility shaped our days.—
Essence,
Essence,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Placidness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/placidness. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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