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as in anemic
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as in nonviolent
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Recent Examples of bloodless
In December, Syrian President Bashar Assad was ousted from power early in a bloodless coup by Islamist rebels who took control of Damascus, the Syrian capital, after a 13-year civil war that has caused more than 500,000 deaths and forced millions of Syrians to leave their homeland.
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Addie Morfoot, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
Look no further than Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos’ bloodless spiking of an editorial endorsing Kamala Harris in the name of greater objectivity.
—J.t. Barbarese, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2025
The stunning fall of the Syrian government early Sunday — a bloodless coup by Islamist rebels that ended the brutal 50-year rule of the Bashar Assad regime — has been reverberating across the global film community.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
The president’s flight ends his family’s 54-year stranglehold on the country which began when his father Hafez al-Assad seized power in a bloodless coup in November 1970.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2024
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Addie Morfoot, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
Look no further than Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos’ bloodless spiking of an editorial endorsing Kamala Harris in the name of greater objectivity.
—J.t. Barbarese, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2025
The stunning fall of the Syrian government early Sunday — a bloodless coup by Islamist rebels that ended the brutal 50-year rule of the Bashar Assad regime — has been reverberating across the global film community.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
The president’s flight ends his family’s 54-year stranglehold on the country which began when his father Hafez al-Assad seized power in a bloodless coup in November 1970.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodless
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These were the years in which capitalism shed its pitiless light on the absurd British soul, with its deep striations of caste and station, its postcolonial taint, most of all its perverted emotional core, full of love and loathing for its own extremes of domination and servitude.—
Rachel Cusk,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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Achyut Kumar plays Prabhu, a pitiless small-town businessman running for local office with the help of his right-hand enforcer, Malabari (Dileesh Pothan).—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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Dillashaw explained that the extreme weight cut to reach flyweight left him anemic.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
25 Nov. 2024
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European economic growth has been anemic since inflation took hold and is not expected to enjoy strong economic growth in 2025 or 2026.—
SJ Guest Editorial,
Sourcing Journal,
12 Mar. 2025
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Although the Tesla Takedown organizers emphasize nonviolent actions, such as dumping Tesla shares, reports of vandalism have become common in recent weeks.—
William Gavin,
Quartz,
19 Mar. 2025
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Shots were fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon, and at another, in Manhattan, arrests were made following a nonviolent protest.—
George Pendle,
airmail.news,
15 Mar. 2025
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Millie Bobby Brown—the closest thing Netflix has to an in-house star—plays Michelle, a teenager sympathetic to the automatons’ plight who rallies a group of misfits to dethrone a heartless tech mogul, Ethan (Stanley Tucci), who believes that humans and robots shouldn’t coexist.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
19 Mar. 2025
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Nelis renders the professor a pompous and pedantic twit but not a heartless one.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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More white people claim the credit than Black people certainly.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes,
14 Feb. 2023
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The only racial group that saw a decrease in suicide rates across age cohorts was non-Hispanic white people.—
Ellen Barry,
BostonGlobe.com,
11 Feb. 2023
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Trump’s animosity toward the First Amendment also extended to its guarantee of peaceable assembly.—
Scott Nover,
TIME,
5 Mar. 2025
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For decades in the United States, scientists and government officials have coexisted in a mostly peaceable and productive symbiosis.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Tabo turns, in his mother’s eyes, into a cold and unfeeling stone.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
24 Mar. 2025
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So much modern football is mechanical and unfeeling; Joao Felix is loose and breezy.—
Jack Lang,
The Athletic,
9 Feb. 2025
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Far from staging combative debates, Newsom — who's widely expected to run for president in 2028 — struck a conciliatory tone and sought middle ground in his debut podcast episodes.—
Zachary Basu,
Axios,
14 Mar. 2025
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There are high hopes that Ukraine can mend its fraught relations with the country that had been Kyiv's biggest backer, but has veered toward a more conciliatory tone to Russia since Trump strode back into the White House.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Bloodless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodless. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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