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placid

[plas-id] / ˈplæs ɪd /


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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

Today, coaches are allowed to advise players during a match, and Alcaraz’s running dialogues in Spanish with Ferrero became a staple of major finals; Alcaraz’s engine running hot as a placid Ferrero preached calm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

"At different phases of the day it can feel quite placid, you can feel out of the game with the ball and things can turn around," said Root.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025

O-lan had lain herself upon the bed after the cooking of the meal and the child lay beside her—a fat, placid child, well enough, but not so large as the first one.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck




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