as in mute
unable to speak
believes that animals deserve basic rights even though they are voiceless
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Recent Examples of voiceless
And Just Like That … as a ghost in the machine: a faceless, voiceless apparition seen only in texts to Carrie Bradshaw’s phone.
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Kim Cattrall, Vulture, 4 May 2022
That would have been unheard-of under Carlisle, whose assistants through the years largely remained voiceless, at least publicly.
—Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2022
Last year, neuroscientists at the University of California, San Francisco published a high-profile paper in The New England Journal of Medicine detailing how artificial neural networks coupled with a brain implant helped a paralyzed and voiceless man regain the ability to talk via a computer.
—Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2022
But unlike Siri, the virtual driver in this study remained voiceless.
—Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
See All Example Sentences for voiceless
Kim Cattrall, Vulture, 4 May 2022
That would have been unheard-of under Carlisle, whose assistants through the years largely remained voiceless, at least publicly.
—Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2022
Last year, neuroscientists at the University of California, San Francisco published a high-profile paper in The New England Journal of Medicine detailing how artificial neural networks coupled with a brain implant helped a paralyzed and voiceless man regain the ability to talk via a computer.
—Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2022
But unlike Siri, the virtual driver in this study remained voiceless.
—Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for voiceless
Adjective
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The novel immerses the reader in the world of a Carpathian village in the 1970s, where the main character Darusya lives, whom the locals consider mute and mentally retarded due to attacks of headaches, although none of them guesses the true reasons for her behavior and defiance.—
Nelly Klos
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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With a tactical view on mute or turning the volume up.—
Art de Roché,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In helicopter video taken by Air Maui Helicopter Tours in Lahaina and posted online the people aboard are largely speechless.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC News,
10 Aug. 2023
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Because his work, as is often the case, leaves us almost speechless.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Jan. 2023
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“Voiceless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/voiceless. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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