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as in anemic
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Recent Examples of bloodless
But on Monday, Iran responded with a largely symbolic and bloodless strike on a U.S. military base in Qatar.
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Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 24 June 2025
But in the strangest and most accomplished of his novels—Car (1972), A Feast of Snakes (1976), and The Knockout Artist (1988), the latter of which was reissued last year by Penguin Classics—what these strivers are after isn’t so material, and their pursuits are anything but slick or bloodless.
—Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
That Rae’s vocals were processed into bloodless oblivion didn’t help.
—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
There is plenty of commentary, even among users of other platforms, about how Threads is bloodless (and owned by Mark Zuckerberg), Mastodon is inscrutable, and Bluesky is humorless.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 23 May 2025
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Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 24 June 2025
But in the strangest and most accomplished of his novels—Car (1972), A Feast of Snakes (1976), and The Knockout Artist (1988), the latter of which was reissued last year by Penguin Classics—what these strivers are after isn’t so material, and their pursuits are anything but slick or bloodless.
—Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
That Rae’s vocals were processed into bloodless oblivion didn’t help.
—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
There is plenty of commentary, even among users of other platforms, about how Threads is bloodless (and owned by Mark Zuckerberg), Mastodon is inscrutable, and Bluesky is humorless.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodless
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Much violence ensues, which Kurosawa directs with a cold, pitiless, and relentlessly sustained excitement.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
17 July 2025
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From Hollywood's Golden Age and the '70s catastrophe obsession to today, these films have unearthed every pitiless corner of nature's wrath, from towering tsunamis and viral pandemics to all-out apocalypses and more.—
EW Staff Published,
EW.com,
3 July 2025
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Their offense, anemic for much of the first half, has awoken during the summer’s dog days.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
15 Aug. 2025
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The numbers left employment growth averaging an anemic 35,000 the past three months.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
13 Aug. 2025
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In late July, the government abruptly transferred Maxwell to a minimum-security, women-only federal prison camp in Texas where most inmates are serving time for nonviolent and white-collar crimes.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
11 Aug. 2025
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Recent polls, however, suggest some Americans are turning on Trump's immigration policy amid reports that individuals with no criminal records or nonviolent offenses are being targeted.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Aug. 2025
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The first four episodes of season 2 crept onto Netflix earlier this month, throwing our favorite heartless teenager (played by Jenna Ortega) headfirst into a new mystery, complete with secret experiments, ravenous zombies, and a spat of unsettling bird murders.—
Allison DeGrushe Published,
EW.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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The heartless subway mugger who slashed and badly wounded a woman on an empty Manhattan train car will stay locked up following his arrest late last week.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
12 Aug. 2025
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More white people claim the credit than Black people certainly.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes,
14 Feb. 2023
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The only racial group that saw a decrease in suicide rates across age cohorts was non-Hispanic white people.—
Ellen Barry,
BostonGlobe.com,
11 Feb. 2023
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Such was the peaceable dreaming, the end-of-history thinking, in the wake of the Twelve-Day War.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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Trump’s narrow nationalism does not seem more peaceable than internationalism.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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As a result, this scientific approach to cooking is often derided as cold and unfeeling—the opposite of what good food is supposed to be.—
Erica Westly,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 Mar. 2010
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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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Some European politicians have expressed concern over the conciliatory U.S. approach to the negotiations.—
Katya Soldak,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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But shortly after Valero announced its plans to close the Benicia refinery, the governor appeared to a take on a more conciliatory tone.—
Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 July 2025
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“Bloodless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodless. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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