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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
Instead, in much of popular culture, men often get messages encouraging them to be stoic and unemotional.
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Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
21 June 2026
Your instinct may be to focus on logistics while avoiding your emotions… but unfortunately for you, this season is anything but stoic.
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Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
21 June 2026
Root, the stoic Kevin Carroll, the impassioned Kingston Rumi Southwick, the beautifully present Jeff Hiller, the great Dale Dickey and the quietly scene-stealing K Callan.
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Clayton Davis,
Variety,
19 June 2026
Sarnoski shoots everything with overwhelming but legible intensity, neither shying away from the violence nor making an effort to glorify it, and Jackman is similarly stoic in his performance.
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David Sims,
The Atlantic,
17 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for stoic
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
21 June 2026
Your instinct may be to focus on logistics while avoiding your emotions… but unfortunately for you, this season is anything but stoic.
—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
21 June 2026
Root, the stoic Kevin Carroll, the impassioned Kingston Rumi Southwick, the beautifully present Jeff Hiller, the great Dale Dickey and the quietly scene-stealing K Callan.
—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
19 June 2026
Sarnoski shoots everything with overwhelming but legible intensity, neither shying away from the violence nor making an effort to glorify it, and Jackman is similarly stoic in his performance.
—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
17 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for stoic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stoic
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These rules aim to put patient interests ahead of profit motives.
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Success will depend less on constructing facilities than on securing long-term buyers, trusted regulators, technology transfer, and patient capital that can sustain long-term production.
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Its weightless-yet-revitalizing feel is thanks to moisturizing squalane, Japanese lemon balm and sunflower seed wax, which calm inflammation, improve the skin barrier, and lock in hydration.
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One of the most consistent findings in stress physiology is that movement can be the fastest route to a calmer nervous system.
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And for many women, tapping into that passive income could be a real lifeline in a cost-of-living crisis.
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The physical configuration achieves passive safety operational profiles by relying on subcritical physics variables and inherent material limitations.
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Many Labour members hope Burnham’s people skills and charisma can connect with the public more than the stolid, managerial Starmer could ever do.
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Many Labor members hope Burnham’s people skills and charisma can connect with the public more than the stolid, managerial Starmer could ever do.
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Second, victims of higher taxes don’t stand still and get sheared like obedient sheep.
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The dogs Kostyukevich saw on Happy K9 Academy’s Instagram page seemed happy and obedient.
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Riles’s face is impassive, focused, as the announcer reads out the winner.
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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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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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The thickset Armand Assante was a phlegmatic Odysseus, but Greta Scacchi, as Penelope—who has so little to say in the poem—became the physical embodiment of anger, and Isabella Rossellini was a teasing Athena.
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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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“Stoic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stoic. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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