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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

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

“I was very impressed with his countenance, courtesy and respect toward me,” Grier said in an email.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2025

Samuel read, “ ‘And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

These striking works center on modeled, black-and-white countenances in front of flat blossoms, also monochromatic but sometimes overlaid with color.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023

He was also the only barefaced person in a sea of masked countenances.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 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

They were stiff with their long and jolting drive from Whitcross, and chilled with the frosty night air; but their pleasant countenances expanded to the cheerful firelight.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

I’ve countenanced the strong plots because these books are so good.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

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

This was extravagant and not to be countenanced.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck

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

He waited, countenancing her while she climbed the short ladder to the already curtained berth.

From Rimrock Trail by Joseph Allan Dunn