without reason

idiom

: without having a reason for something
You can be fired without reason.

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Treat important solo blocks as meetings—no internal rescheduling without reason. Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025 Liberals more often dismiss the issue, not without reason, as scaremongering in service of the Republican assault on reproductive rights. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025 His critics condemned his excessive ambitions, not without reason. Jeremi Suri, TIME, 21 July 2024 Convinced – not without reason – that Carlos Menem is to blame for Argentina’s worst economic crisis in history, the gang plans to meet Menem at his lavish Anillaco mansion and shoot him dead. John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for without reason

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“Without reason.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/without%20reason. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.

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