taciturn
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And, if millions remember him only as the somewhat taciturn commander of the USS Enterprise, that prospect was not something that worried him.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Hedge-fund-rich Sang-woo has an air of cool privilege, while the gloomy, taciturn Ho-seok harbors unprocessed trauma about what happened during the strike, the details of which are judiciously doled out to us in flashbacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
She is as warm and outgoing as he is taciturn and undemonstrative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
In 1983, he slipped into the role of a taciturn Texas ranger waging war against an arms dealer in "Lone Wolf McQuade", which provided the template for the cult TV series "Walker, Texas Ranger".
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
They are his other lieutenants, closer to Keenan's age than Mazen's and possessed of the younger man's taciturn coolness.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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