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Recent Examples of groundless Lively’s attorneys, Mike Gottlieb and Esra Hudson, blasted the suit as legally groundless and an effort to silence her. Elizabeth Rosner, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025 The bill was first introduced last year as Republicans focused on noncitizen voting Ahead of the 2024 election, Trump and his allies repeated the groundless claim that Democrats planned to cheat by encouraging noncitizens to illegally vote. Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 12 Mar. 2025 The claims of an invasion of the Eastern seaboard by swarms of drones has every marker of a groundless social media frenzy. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024 Yet there’s much more to be said about Ohanian’s original article, as well as the glee with which conservatives seized on its headline claim as the basis for largely groundless attacks on California’s economic policies. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for groundless
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Adjective
  • In a unanimous opinion, the justices said courts can look beyond the exact moment a police officer is using deadly force to determine if the force was unreasonable.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 16 May 2025
  • Given the high degree of regulation and data privacy concerns within our industry, this isn’t an unreasonable question, to say nothing of the cost of bespoke software solutions.
    Tom Hughes, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • Trump’s order aligned with his unfounded claims that fraud is widespread in U.S. elections and that voting by noncitizen immigrants is a major problem.
    Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Drue Moore’s widow, Kelly, and their two children are now suing Brooks and Robinson, claiming their unfounded accusations of him embezzling Winthrop funds led to Drue’s death by suicide.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 26 Mar. 2025

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“Groundless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groundless. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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