placid
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Underneath his placid demeanor, Cook is a tactical corporate strategist whose decisions haven’t always sat well with everyone.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
The seals are out but they are not basking in the sunshine and neither are the holidaymakers who've come to kayak on Loch Leven's placid surface.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
She holds up a sepia photograph in a silver embossed frame: the clairvoyant Isabel Barros Moreira, her mother’s mother, her face placid, with dark hair and dark eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
Steve Sosnick, the chief strategist at Interactive Brokers, writes that the president’s comments “challenged investors’ perceptions about a speedy end to hostilities and a fundamental tenet of U.S. equities’ placid response to the crisis.”
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing placid
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 3
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"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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