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Recent Examples of lifeless How can someone who created those songs put out something as lifeless as this? Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 15 May 2025 The rooms are immaculate but lifeless, albeit with a surfeit of gold leaf. Peter Rutland, The Conversation, 9 May 2025 Not from the realm of the dead, of course, but from the realm of the lifeless. Karl Ove Knausgaard, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025 Brian McCall wrote he was called around 7:26 a.m. March 19 to the Willows Apartments on the 400 block of Clark Road in Gary where Howell was found lifeless, lying face up on the sidewalk. Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lifeless
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Adjective
  • Topline Authorities reportedly identified the man suspected of killing two firefighters and injuring another in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho—after he was found dead next to the sniper rifle believed to be used to ambush firefighters responding to a wildfire.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Last year, a 19-year-old female employee at a Walmart in Canada was found dead inside a walk-in oven at the store's bakery department.
    Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • The now deceased suspect is believed to have started the fire intentionally to draw-in and target responding firefighters, officials have said.
    Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 1 July 2025
  • Authorities later located the body of a deceased man with a firearm nearby and lifted the shelter-in-place order that had been in place.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025

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“Lifeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifeless. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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