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as in boring
lacking in distinctive features or qualities
it was precisely because he was a faceless individual that the serial killer was able to go on for so long without detection
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as in unnamed
not named or identified by a name
faceless gossipmongers had been spreading rumors about the actor's sexual identity for years
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Recent Examples of faceless
Many influencers position themselves against traditional media, which offers information and entertainment under a faceless corporate banner, and instead encourage fans to develop deep parasocial bonds.
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Taylor Lorenz, Vanity Fair, 15 Apr. 2026
The phrase is above a graphic of a faceless person standing among patches of grass and grey stepping stones.
—Zara Irshad, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2026
For all their bombast, the ICE and Border Patrol agents seemed to work no harder than any other faceless federal bureaucrats.
—Daniel Brook, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
While many other Americans saw those Iraqis and Afghans as faceless Muslims in an enemy country, those images transported to me my grandmother’s jasmine scented garden, those faces reminded me of my cousins.
—Alex Shams, Time, 14 Mar. 2026
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Taylor Lorenz, Vanity Fair, 15 Apr. 2026
The phrase is above a graphic of a faceless person standing among patches of grass and grey stepping stones.
—Zara Irshad, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2026
For all their bombast, the ICE and Border Patrol agents seemed to work no harder than any other faceless federal bureaucrats.
—Daniel Brook, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
While many other Americans saw those Iraqis and Afghans as faceless Muslims in an enemy country, those images transported to me my grandmother’s jasmine scented garden, those faces reminded me of my cousins.
—Alex Shams, Time, 14 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faceless
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If your summer wardrobe is feeling a bit boring or outdated, don’t fret — Amazon just added tons of new styles to its sale section, and my top picks are all going for $10 or less.—
Emily Weaver,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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Finally, the institution must be financially boring.—
Christos Korgan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
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Also included in this zone is the adjacent unnamed development (owned by the same developers as Lee + White), which is the new home of the Atlanta Food Truck Park, and Bogg’s Social and Supply next door.—
Kate Williams,
AJC.com,
29 May 2026
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So shouts an unnamed (and slightly out-of-focus) soldier just as the helicopters land in the central battle sequence in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 May 2026
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On a recent morning, two people wearing purple shirts and carrying clipboards entered the courtyard of a nondescript building in San Diego’s Midway District, speaking gently to a woman in distress.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 May 2026
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Details of the transaction match others the team has recently completed nearby, like paying for the property in cash, using a lawyer associated with its other deals and forming the nondescript buying entity in late 2023.—
Matthew Geiger,
Denver Post,
14 May 2026
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As if breaking the law would offer a symbolic release from this double bind, the third video documents Liden trespassing into the apartment of an anonymous hoarder.—
Erika Landström,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Getty Images Roony Bardghji is looking increasingly likely to leave FC Barcelona this summer, with the club accelerating his departure according to SPORT, which cited anonymous sources.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Its gibbous disk appears small and featureless.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
2 May 2026
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In the first act, the Enterprise learns that a Borg cube—a massive, featureless warship—is carving a path toward Earth, destroying Starfleet vessels along the way.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
5 Apr. 2026
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Then, when the boat hit a piece of unidentified debris in the Hudson River while getting in some practice before the racing began, one of the rudders broke.—
Andrew Rice,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
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With the new lead, detectives were able to positively confirm that the long-unidentified remains belonged to Sipfle, the outlets reported.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
31 May 2026
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Like the power looms, automated threshers, and robotic assembly lines before them, platform technologies are not neutral.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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These are the ocular dominance columns, described in the Nobel Prize-winning research of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel in the 1960s, whose recordings from cats’ (Felis catus) and macaques’ (genus Macaca) revealed that the visual cortex is not a neutral integrator of the two eyes’ signals.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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Nowadays, old-school residents bemoan the neighborhood’s evolution from grungy to grandiose; what was once a warren of hedonism has become a breeding ground for characterless watering holes whose lack of personality is bested only by the exorbitance of their beer prices.—
Dan Stahl,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
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Dąbrowski is pictured taking a catnap in a sleeping bag in some characterless photo studio.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Faceless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faceless. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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