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Recent Examples of bloodless
America’s dependence on overwhelming force would form the assumption that, as in Cuba, war should be quick and relatively bloodless.
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Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Instead, early actors and prop makers probably just pantomimed bloodless violence, at most using bright red cloth to signify gore.
—Mark Hay, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
And yet, welcoming that idea can shock the system because our popular conception of the American Revolution is so often encased in bloodless, gallant myth.
—Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
As far as felonies go, the bloodless armed robbery of drug dealers ranks low on the moral-outrage scale—until a victim catches a glimpse of one assailant’s face.
—Judy Berman, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
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Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Instead, early actors and prop makers probably just pantomimed bloodless violence, at most using bright red cloth to signify gore.
—Mark Hay, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
And yet, welcoming that idea can shock the system because our popular conception of the American Revolution is so often encased in bloodless, gallant myth.
—Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
As far as felonies go, the bloodless armed robbery of drug dealers ranks low on the moral-outrage scale—until a victim catches a glimpse of one assailant’s face.
—Judy Berman, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodless
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Biel is a pitiless cokehead who, we’re told, later marries a senator and has four kids.—
Ky Henderson,
Rolling Stone,
15 Feb. 2026
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In his experiences and chronicles of the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, Curzio Malaparte was a shape-shifter—pitiless, clinical, cynical, unsentimental, indifferent to morality and idealism.—
Leah Downey,
The New York Review of Books,
7 Feb. 2026
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Indeed, after annual revisions, payroll growth averaged just 15,000 jobs per month in 2025, anemic by any historical standard outside a recession.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
11 Feb. 2026
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On top of the anemic gains, Daco has another worry.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2026
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Nearly half of those suspensions were for nonviolent behavior.—
Theo Peck-Suzuki,
Hartford Courant,
15 Feb. 2026
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By now, the Syrian opposition, once led by nonviolent protesters, was dominated by Islamists, who were divided and feckless and could be easily lumped together with the telegenic savageries of the Islamic State, known as ISIS.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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In 1965 Maryland, Sophia Clark is given an opportunity to attend a prestigious all white boarding school and escape her heartless parents.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
15 Feb. 2026
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A lot of the tellings of the story set him up as this heartless crook out to enrich himself, hurt other people, and exploit the ocean.—
Abigail Wise,
Outside,
13 Feb. 2026
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At a time of mounting concern over the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley — dominated by white men — Jackson successfully pressured Uber to release demographic data showing its staff was overwhelmingly male.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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She was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, blue jeans, white tennis shoes and a black JanSport backpack.—
Katie Langford,
Denver Post,
18 Feb. 2026
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Human societies are more peaceable but not necessarily more equal.—
Thomas Morgan,
The Conversation,
3 Feb. 2026
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Making something that is not America—is communal where America is individualist, is peaceable where America is warring.—
Katherine Packert Burke,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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The greatest accusation levied against her is the crime of being an unfeeling mother.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
11 Aug. 2025
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Then, the men had to walk around as these unfeeling, aggressive, hyper-masculine creatures.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
28 May 2025
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Morrison has to redress the concealing and conciliatory language of the slave narratives.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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While Rubio's tone might have been more conciliatory than Vance's, the underlying issues remained the same, as some conference attendees acknowledged.—
Azhar Sukri,
CNBC,
15 Feb. 2026
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“Bloodless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodless. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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