poker-faced
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Up until a few years ago, when people started recognizing her for playing poker-faced attorney Kim Wexler on “Better Call Saul,” Seehorn would be standing in a store and customers figured she worked there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The most endearing moment happened during the pandemic when videos of him working out - poker-faced and staring right into your soul - sparked waves of jokes online.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
Even through the more dramatic moments of the day, they remained poker-faced.
From Slate ● May 29, 2024
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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