without reason

idiom

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

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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 Staff ordered on leave include both foreign and civil service officers who have legal protection against arbitrary dismissal and being placed on leave without reason. Ellen Knickmeyer, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025 In that way, McDonald’s became a kind of scapegoat for people who were exhausted of stretching their budgets to afford food and suspecting (not without reason) that corporate greed was at least partly to blame. Allison Morrow, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024 But in this case, their misgivings are not without reason. James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 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 2 Apr. 2025.

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