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Recent Examples of dateless Hailey Bieber went dateless to the 2025 Met Gala as her husband, Justin Bieber, was nowhere to be found. Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 5 May 2025 Her theory about dateless, spiraling young men ends with home prices declining for years, or even decades. Byalena Botros, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024 All my Cinderellas didn’t find their March romance and went home dateless for the second weekend. J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023 Dreams are usually dateless, absent from the illusion of the flow of time. Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dateless
Adjective
  • The photo highlights the relative youth of human civilization by showing a 2,500-year-old temple that is ancient by the yardstick of human lives, alongside the 4.5 billion-year-old disk of Earth's moon, which has watched over humanity since our ancestors emerged from the oceans.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 May 2025
  • Drive around the island and catch glimpses of past civilizations: ancient fig trees propped up by wooden crutches; centuries-old windmills that look like giant antique flyswatters; stone walls built by the Moors during the Middle Ages that somehow still look new.
    Julia Chaplin, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • Throughout the book’s 26 chapters, Blume examines the question of whether or not first loves are eternal.
    Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2025
  • Barca opened up a seven-point lead at the summit by beating its other eternal rival Real Madrid 4-3 in El Clasico at the weekend.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • In 2023, the rapper/singer spoke to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and talked about the birth of that immortal couplet.
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 12 May 2025
  • That would be the immortal Jerry Dybzinski, whose base-running gaffe in Game 4 of the 1983 American League Championship Series proved costly in an extra-inning loss to the Baltimore Orioles.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • The venerable system of health clinics, based in South Los Angeles, on Thursday joined about 10 other nonprofits in launching a media campaign that will focus on half a dozen U.S. House districts where Republican lawmakers have supported the president’s initial budget plan.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The process includes several stages: servant of God, venerable, blessed (through beatification), and finally, saint (through canonization).
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • An endless number of diets claim to promote weight loss and improve health.
    Patty Weasler, Verywell Health, 12 May 2025
  • The 17-year-old Yamal remains an endless source of creativity who steps up on every big occasion.
    Pol Ballús, New York Times, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • The rapper's most enduring romance was with model-actress Kimberly Porter, who died of pneumonia in November 2018.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • The praise was meaningful to Coogler, who includes Lee among his most enduring influences.
    Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • So when an overconfident Dedra enters the antique shop on her own to arrest Luthen, and Luthen takes advantage of this to attempt suicide so he can’t be forced to turn on his allies, Kleya is given an impossible but necessary task.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2025
  • The event will feature antique cars, food trucks and artisan merchandise.such as handmade pillows, bath items, jewelry, glassware and handmade cards.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • Vedder, a passionate Cubs fan, supplied a guitar that will serve as a perpetual trophy in the contest.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2025
  • Yet the perpetual sad boy is already contemplating the extent of his mortality — and his legacy.
    Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025

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“Dateless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dateless. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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