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countenance

[koun-tn-uhns] / ˈkaʊn tn əns /


NOUN
self-control
Synonyms


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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

The aim, colleges and advisers explain, is to probe how well students can countenance other viewpoints.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

But I was grateful to experience the text through a different voice and countenance.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2025

This week, pictures of a chubby-faced Vance were ubiquitous; not so much a fat edit of the vice president as it is as if someone photoshopped an overweight middle schooler’s countenance on his besuited figure.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2025

“So we are to countenance things and people which we detest, merely because we are not belles and millionaires, are we? That’s a nice sort of morality.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott




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