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poker-faced

British  

adjective

  1. informal having a deliberately expressionless face

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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This certainly isn’t the first time the typically poker-faced singer has had to shut down rumors about her body.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2024

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

From Slate • May 29, 2024

Three years ago, Nancy Miah had never heard of the fictional, Dutch, poker-faced bunny known as Miffy.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2023

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

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 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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