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Recent Examples of lifelessness
Periodically, the group returns to such a state of paradoxical lifelessness, dragged by a partner or semi-mechanically traversing the stage as an automaton might.
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Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2026
Canales answered to the lifelessness in his postgame presser.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 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 music publication Revolver reported in a 2023 article about Cold as Life that the hard rock band continued to perform after its frontman’s death.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
14 May 2026
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Since 2018, authorities had used advanced DNA evidence to link Brashers to the strangulation death of a South Carolina woman in 1990, the 1997 rape of a 14-year-old girl in Tennessee and the shooting of a mother and daughter in Missouri in 1998.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 May 2026
Noun
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His remains showed clear signs of cannibalism, confirming early Inuit reports of desperate crew members resorting to eating their dead.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
8 May 2026
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Once the fog of chaos lifted, the police and the protesters both gathered their dead.—
Michael Peregrine,
Chicago Tribune,
4 May 2026
Noun
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Did the baby’s livingness make Tomm’s deadness louder?—
Maria Zorn,
Longreads,
24 Feb. 2026
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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
Noun
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This is a guy who sees his mortality coming at him fast.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 May 2026
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Trippier was forced to confront his footballing mortality up close when Newcastle signed the exceptional Tino Livramento, then 20, in summer 2023.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
16 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Lifelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifelessness. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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