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poker-faced

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adjective

  1. informal having a deliberately expressionless face

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Coach Matt Peet is normally poker-faced but laughed uproariously in the stand at the sheer impertinence and invention.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2024

Even through the more dramatic moments of the day, they remained poker-faced.

From Slate • May 29, 2024

They remained poker-faced, urging Washington to discuss the issue through “quiet diplomacy without releases of speculative information.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2022

A poker-faced former prosecutor, Mr. Brooks nonetheless seemed to savor, at a couple of campaign appearances on Friday, his comeback from March, when he was polling in the teens and Mr. Trump abandoned him.

From New York Times • May 22, 2022

At the stroke position was a fourth member of last year’s freshman crew: poker-faced Don Hume.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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