How native speakers pronounce “stoic”

only to get the run-around and to be evaluated by a stoic figure in a white coat who only has 10 minutes to give you

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which was a euphemism for the previous Latin word for death, "mors." Apparently, even the stoic Romans were as queasy about death as today's middle schoolers.

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to name but three students of stoicism. George Washington actually had a play about a Stoic -- this was "Cato, a Tragedy" --

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and a cry might mean happiness, and a stoic, still face might mean that you are angrily plotting the demise of your enemy.

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