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That financial discipline may have consequences - while the feeling was Elliot Anderson would have joined Manchester City anyway, United did not countenance paying the £116m Nottingham Forest eventually sold him for.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

When he speaks of Likho, he speaks with a tender cadence and dignified countenance, as if he were his own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

But despite soundtracking 128 episodes worth of hormonal melodrama, Cole’s song most immediately evokes one image: the devilishly handsome, All-American countenance of the show’s star, James Van Der Beek.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026

Over time, you can see that he has come to believe that the problems of the country need something more radical than either of the traditional big parties are prepared to countenance.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026

Wild was the wrestle which should be paramount; but another feeling rose and triumphed: something hard and cynical: self-willed and resolute: it settled his passion and petrified his countenance: he went on—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Of course, a book that casts countenances as works of art also has an attendant ethics.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2020

Some of us, though, will be suspicious of anything that countenances the missing of even the smallest part of a film.

From The Guardian ● May 2, 2019

A dying figure, Agni, is surrounded by the countenances of mythic beings, including Mozart, Lewis Carroll, a witch, the Queen of the Night, Copernicus, Tristan and Isolde.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2016

His rough-edged, early-modernist style suits their humble clothing and vanquished countenances.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2016

Their countenances were so lifelike that sometimes he was sure they would leap out of their frames in the deep of night, flat hands grabbing, clothes rippling behind them in unseen winds.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

The very premise of Jackson’s Nuremberg prosecutions was that, no matter how “official” the actions, war crimes could not be countenanced, even—or especially—at the highest levels of government.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2025

It understood its sector — venture capitalists and technology start-ups — and made loans that national banks would never have countenanced.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

Because it is outrageous that such a wealthy city has countenanced inhuman living conditions like this for years.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

Ms. Notz, though, said the founders never countenanced the idea of revocation so those shouldn’t count.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

To places that didn’t share a border with slave states, had never countenanced the abomination of slavery.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

If Holmes’ constant appeal is an easily solvable case, then countenancing the possibility that there may be much more to his life than what Doyle shared isn’t impossible either.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

Even this court, though, can hopefully still be shamed from countenancing the worst abuses of power likely to come before them.

From Slate ● May 18, 2023

Even wise, cool heads, such as the French diplomatist Jean-Marie Guéhenno, are seriously countenancing the idea that a no-deal Brexit may be better than prolonging the agony.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2019

At any rate, Rubio got flak from the right, which accused him of somehow countenancing illegal activity.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2015

How could we introduce through the Gospel a doctrine countenancing evil?

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent by Luther, Martin