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Recent Examples of bloodless
Many gold cloaks, still loyal to Daemon from his time leading the City Watch, helped make this a relatively bloodless conquest.
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James Grebey, Vulture, 22 July 2024
Grayson’s prose is as inspiring as her book’s titular call for a bloodless revolution.
—Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
So many bloodless words with two tender ones in the middle, like a still warm corpse in a storm.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Taimur surrendered in an almost bloodless coup—almost, because the potentate mishandled his firearm and shot himself in the foot.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2024
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James Grebey, Vulture, 22 July 2024
Grayson’s prose is as inspiring as her book’s titular call for a bloodless revolution.
—Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
So many bloodless words with two tender ones in the middle, like a still warm corpse in a storm.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Taimur surrendered in an almost bloodless coup—almost, because the potentate mishandled his firearm and shot himself in the foot.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodless
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But rather than dilute the scare factor, the humor makes the sense of doom only more pitiless and Orlok’s plans for Ellen more spine-chilling.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
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From a spring celebration of bare survival after pitiless hardships, Thanksgiving has evolved to its present proportions, with a football game in every stadium and millions of family parties, starting with fruit cocktail and concluding with fruit, cheese, coffee, cordial and cigars.Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
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The feature film opened in roughly 1,700 theaters across the U.S. last weekend after its debut in Cannes and pulled in an anemic $1.6 million in its first weekend.Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024
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The defense made a play early against Baltimore, but the anemic offense and poor punt return coverage performance let the Ravens score early anyway.Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 22 Dec. 2024
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Last week, Biden commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and pardoned 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes, marking the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.JONATHAN MATTISE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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Listen to this article Loading your audio article President Joe Biden’s recent decision to grant clemency to nearly 1,500 Americans and pardon 39 individuals convicted of nonviolent crimes has stirred controversy across the political spectrum.Emma Withrow, Baltimore Sun, 19 Dec. 2024
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The husband suggested her friend should help with the bill, and the wife retaliated by calling him heartless and petty.Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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Their bravery and dedication to our community have ensured a joyous holiday season for our residents, especially the children who would have been affected by The Grinch's heartless actions.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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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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The most formidable obstacle to a peaceable refuge was the double-decker section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that hugs the cliff below Brooklyn Heights.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 July 2024
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In one study, 18 percent of patients flew, sang, danced, laughed, lectured or enacted other peaceable activities.Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2023
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Human failings amidst an unfeeling snowpocalypse make for some engaging scenes.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2024
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The author renders the four-year-old Margaret’s inner life with sensitive complexity, depicting an alert child logic that defies adults’ view of her as slow and unfeeling.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
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Cobb said the applicant should be conciliatory about the offense and then promote their good acts since the crime.Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
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Part of your role as a peacemaker is acknowledging the opportunities, highlighting when someone says something conciliatory, or shows kindness in conflict.Anna Shields, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Bloodless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodless. Accessed 9 Jan. 2025.
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