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countenance

[koun-tn-uhns] / ˈkaʊn tn əns /


NOUN
self-control
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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

Beckett was famously unforgiving when it came to fiddling with his works; his estate would not likely countenance egregious diversions from the “Godot” text.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 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

In response, I merely passed to her my record book, which with quizzical countenance, she turned through.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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