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Standing in the rostrum of the House of Representatives, a gavel in her hand and a look of imperturbable stoicism on her face, Ms. Harris officiated as the two houses of Congress met in joint session to formally count the Electoral College votes for president.—
Peter Baker,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2025 -
The team’s droll, imperturbable manager, Dave Roberts, spent much of his summer issuing medical briefings on infirm pitchers.—
Nicholas Dawidoff,
The New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2024
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Świątek, who had just relinquished the No. 1 spot, is one of the few players who can rival Gauff as a mover, and her disciplined, suffocating ground strokes can seem engineered to break down Gauff’s forehand.—
Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2025
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These green shoots of progress signal a shift towards more disciplined and accountable data practices.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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Burns, the administration’s de facto Putin whisperer, had heard it all before and understood that the Russian leader’s paranoid obsession with Ukraine was real and unshakable.—
Shane Harris,
The Atlantic,
17 Jan. 2025
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Season two builds upon the unexpected tenderness of their meet-cute, threading their unshakable bond into the series’ larger mysteries.—
Abby Monteil,
Them,
15 Jan. 2025
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Did the skipper think this was a Buck Rogers episode, where the unflappable hero always pulls through in the end?—
David Wolman,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
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Captain Rohit Sharma could not even make it to the fifth Test, so abject his batting as a notably flustered persona took hold of his usual unflappable demeanour, while mighty Virat Kohli was reduced to a diminished figure after continually being baffled by Scott Boland.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes,
5 Jan. 2025
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Instead, Kvitova produced a nerveless performance, finishing off the match with her first ace of the final.—
Danielle Rossingh,
Forbes,
27 June 2021
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The seemingly nerveless Floridian, a ferocious competitor at the best of times, hit back in style to close with two birdies in his last three holes for a round of 69 in the process sending a very clear message to his rivals out there.—
Patrick Snell,
CNN,
9 Aug. 2020
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Rosenkrantz is played in the two-hander by Rebecca Hall with warmth and humor and a physical ease that makes Linda much more centered and self-contained than Whishaw’s chain-smoking, often fidgeting Peter.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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He is self-contained, bookish, innocent despite his cynicism — and as such stories often go, disappointment and bitterness probably await.—
Zachary Lazar,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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State of play: While San Francisco has made significant strides in coordinating emergency response operations since 1906, the fire department also offers free disaster skills training in an effort to bolster residents' ability to be self-sufficient.—
Shawna Chen,
Axios,
10 Jan. 2025
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Designed to empower youth and build confident, self-sufficient, successful leaders of tomorrow, Acewall Scholars is devoid of boxes and labels.—
William Jones,
USA TODAY,
10 Jan. 2025
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In Putin’s current calculus, the specter of a sovereign, self-reliant Ukraine poses a far graver threat to Russia than the more distant prospect of economic degradation.—
Alexandra Prokopenko,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Jan. 2025
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One of those kids, Estrella (Paola Lara), joins a gang of self-reliant boys led by the no-nonsense El Shine (Juan Ramón López) in order to fight back.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Self-poised.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-poised. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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