placid
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Dementia can make patients angry, or placid, or childlike, or even seem to time travel in their minds to where they believe they are children again.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
The seals are out but they are not basking in the sunshine and neither are the holidaymakers who've come to kayak on Loch Leven's placid surface.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
She holds up a sepia photograph in a silver embossed frame: the clairvoyant Isabel Barros Moreira, her mother’s mother, her face placid, with dark hair and dark eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
Oil prices nudged below $95 a barrel and U.S. stock futures were flat in placid early European trade, amid investor optimism around U.S.-Iran peace talks this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
“I see you’ve opted to continue wearing your hair… like that,” she says in a polite, placid tone.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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