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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.
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Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Oct. 2025
Lauren Warnecke,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2026
Canales answered to the lifelessness in his postgame presser.
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Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifelessness
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Juan Andres Gonzalez, 18, is facing a first-degree murder charge in the stabbing death.
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The last goal came at the death, toward the end of stoppage time.
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Perhaps most notably, in several areas along the Western Front during World War I, British and German troops spontaneously observed an unofficial truce to celebrate the Christmas holiday and bury their dead.
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The Navy helped turn one of the few places where its dead still rest in view of the living into a recreation stop.
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Did the baby’s livingness make Tomm’s deadness louder?
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There is, in the end, a deadness to its clichés about writers and their subjects.
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Already listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, in 2023 the species suffered widespread mortality in Florida waters following a heat wave.
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But thank you for reminding me of my upcoming mortality.
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“Lifelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifelessness. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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