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Recent Examples of lifelessness
But now, without its beloved owner, an undertone of lifelessness lingers.
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Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
Canales answered to the lifelessness in his postgame presser.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
Canales answered to the lifelessness in his postgame presser.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifelessness
Noun
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The coroner said next of kin have been notified, and the cause and manner of death for each are pending autopsy results.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
19 Feb. 2026
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He was initially sentenced to death, though the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he was later pardoned.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Three tourists in New Orleans were wounded in a shooting that left a 19-year-old dead when the man ducked into a famed Creole restaurant in a bid to escape the gunfire, authorities said Monday.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
19 Jan. 2026
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But fear of the difficult dead neither originated in nor has been confined to the nineteenth-century European re-imaginings of Vlad the Impaler.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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There is, in the end, a deadness to its clichés about writers and their subjects.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
6 Dec. 2025
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But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Avian influenza continues to cause significant mortality in wild birds, prompting the Arkansas Department of Agriculture to recommend avoiding contact with wild birds.—
Bryan Hendricks,
Arkansas Online,
15 Feb. 2026
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Research also shows that acts of kindness and volunteerism — serving others — are associated with lower mortality and better physical functioning into old age.—
Sreedhar Potarazu,
Baltimore Sun,
15 Feb. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Lifelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifelessness. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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