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as in boring
lacking in distinctive features or qualities
it was precisely because he was a faceless individual that the serial killer was able to go on for so long without detection
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as in unnamed
not named or identified by a name
faceless gossipmongers had been spreading rumors about the actor's sexual identity for years
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Recent Examples of faceless
Carpenter is featured on her knees next to a faceless person wearing a suit, standing over her and grabbing her hair.
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Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
In a free society, the people who enforce the law should never be faceless or unaccountable.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Kurt's key takeaway Instead of relying on faceless phishing emails, scammers are now using hyper-personalized and emotionally charged phone calls.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Deputy Chief Larry Rafferty said allowing residents to get up close to the vehicles is a nice way to show police as more than faceless law enforcement.
—Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
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Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
In a free society, the people who enforce the law should never be faceless or unaccountable.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Kurt's key takeaway Instead of relying on faceless phishing emails, scammers are now using hyper-personalized and emotionally charged phone calls.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Deputy Chief Larry Rafferty said allowing residents to get up close to the vehicles is a nice way to show police as more than faceless law enforcement.
—Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faceless
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Anyone who suggests Guardiola’s title-winning Manchester City teams were boring should be forced to watch 90 minutes of Mourinho’s Chelsea versus Rafael Benitez’s Liverpool in the mid-2000s and report back.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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The details might be boring, but the gathering of money—searching gem dealers, gold dealers—was a full-time job.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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Police also intercepted the Lexus shortly after and allegedly found 21-year-old Kitione Mahe — who had previously been wanted by police — in the front passenger’s seat, along with an unnamed accomplice and the 59-year-old man.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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Israel will also delay the opening of the border crossing to Egypt through Wednesday—and possibly beyond—because of the delay in the return of the hostages' remains, Reuters reported, citing three unnamed Israeli officials.—
Barney Henderson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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Tsypkin’s account of dramatic summer of gambling and deathbed prayers is accompanied by his own melancholic photographs of nondescript walls and windows, taken on a research trip to Leningrad.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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Hardy’s social media feed is dotted with clips of him riding the trio, usually down a nondescript dirt road somewhere in mid-Missouri.—
David Ubben,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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Staff at The Free Press are eager to start working with CBS News; reporter Olivia Reingold appeared on CBS News Friday morning to discuss her report that anonymous NYPD officers had been threatening to quit the force if Zohran Mamdani is elected New York City mayor.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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The SeattleRed report, citing an anonymous source with knowledge of the case, placed the number at more than 100 corrections officers.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
12 Oct. 2025
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Gardner carted his supplies to this featureless patch of earth near the fort, set up his tripods and cameras, and then arranged his dark tent nearby, out of sight of the camera’s lens.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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These religious Iranians are bad Iranians, presented here as blandly featureless aside from their obsession with controlling women, while Roya — with her giggling desire to meet Timothée Chalamet — is recognizably more western and therefore good.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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The unidentified hiker had attempted to summit the mountain earlier in the day but went off-trail when the snowstorm arrived, according to authorities.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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Police in Kansas are asking the public for help in identifying a woman who was seen on surveillance video being taken by force by an unidentified man, according to authorities.—
Jon Haworth,
ABC News,
14 Oct. 2025
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The clash of views and the depth of the politics involved was further underlined by Ayoub Khan, a member of parliament for the Birmingham Perry Barr constituency, signing a petition calling for the game to be called off, staged in a neutral country or held without an away crowd.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Successful sea trial Nearly massless and electrically neutral, neutrinos are born in violent events like nuclear reactions inside stars.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Oct. 2025
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Take after the actress and pair it with coordinating beige slacks for an easy monochromatic moment, or throw it on over T-shirts and leggings for running errands or lounging on the couch.—
Averi Baudler,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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The beige paint on this one was faded and the surface had some dents and rough spots.—
Laura Lane,
USA Today,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Faceless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faceless. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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