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• At the end of the day, there is a small child that is dead for no good reason.
  — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 23 Feb. 2023
• But, as was the case then, careers will have been ruined for no good reason....
  — Jenna Reyes, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
• More:Louisville trees were being torn down for no good reason.
  — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 20 Aug. 2021
• The Bruins tarnished their brand, and for no good reason Neely was asked about what his scouts thought of Miller.
  — Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2022
• In a split second your world gets turn upside down for no good reason.
  — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
• Gunned down at a traffic stop in Falcon Heights for no good reason.
  — Star Tribune, 10 July 2021
• In a split second your world gets turned upside down for no good reason.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
• And there are monsters, starting with a dragon that pops up for no good reason.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
• Sometimes the firemen next door ran their chainsaws for no good reason.
  — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason.
  — PCMAG, 6 Mar. 2023
• Best friends, cousins, and spouses have beaten each other bloody for no good reason.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2021
• When police, White or Black, use deadly force against Black people for no good reason?
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• For the other 199, the result may be devastating for no good reason.
  — Torie Bosch, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
• Bad ones call attention to themselves for no good reason.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2020
• Certain aspects of their characters—like the desire to break stuff, for no good reason—are also alive in us.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 May 2021
• He has been delayed by the machinations of Poseidon, for no good reason.
  — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
• Heads are split open with an axe, and the makeup woman (Bérénice Bejo), for no good reason, turns out to be a master of the military martial art Krav Maga.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2022
• Now and then, for no good reason, the veins in my arms and legs would become prominent and blue and start to ache, a very science-fiction symptom with a Cronenbergian flair.
  — Philippa Snow, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2021
• Time and again a character asserts that someone is obstructionist for no good reason or just doesn’t get it.
  — Frederick Hess, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• During the debate over the Colorado bill, opponents argued that the law would allow vindictive people to take guns away from others for no good reason.
  — Markian Hawryluk, CNN, 27 June 2022
• That could compel police departments to either greatly restrict stops of men, or expand stops of women for no good reason.
  — The Editors, National Review, 29 Apr. 2021
• There are weird toiletry size restrictions and surly airport security personnel and people air raging for no good reason and—the list goes on.
  — Men's Health, 13 Mar. 2023
• Unfortunate that injuries have been conflated with load management – sitting out with an injury is not the same as taking a game off for no good reason.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• Fans may forgive the giant leaps of logic, the way pointless scenes (like Pete Davidson’s cameo) devolve into fistfights for no good reason, since such conflict keeps things exciting.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 17 May 2023
• The Trump administration delayed New York City’s congestion-pricing plan for no good reason.
  — Christopher Robbins, Curbed, 20 May 2021
• Villains explain their plans for no good reason; everything comes with exclamation points.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2023
• Blake, who is not above throwing a funeral party for no good reason, had one very good reason this time: After five years of kitschy fun and stiff cocktails, Death or Glory, a decadently dark and gothy drinking den, was closing for good.
  — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2022
• For centrists, the big giveaways are an affront to frugality and the storied American tradition of nearly everybody being deeply in debt for no good reason.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
• Trillions of dollars have fled securities markets this year, yet regulators are rushing to impose new rules on markets for no good reason.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022
• In 2016, the Republican platform’s language about Ukraine kicked up a campaign controversy and was dragged into investigations for no good reason.
  — The Editors, National Review, 24 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024