How to Use groundless in a Sentence

groundless

adjective
  • But these worries are – at least as far as large language models are concerned – groundless.
    — Nir Eisikovits, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Since election day, more evidence has proved that Trump’s claims of fraud are groundless.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Not when a good old fashioned groundless conspiracy is being waved in front of them.
    — Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 21 July 2024
  • Again, a more sober analysis indicates that these charges are largely groundless.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
  • That’s based on the groundless notion that disability is easy to apply for and receive.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Similar posts making the groundless claim were shared hundreds or thousands of times online.
    — Beatrice Dupuy, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The suit was dismissed as groundless and Ramos railed against the newspaper staff on Twitter.
    — Brian Witte, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • And rights are certainly not arbitrary or groundless, given to us capriciously by a state that can take them away at will.
    — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 20 June 2019
  • In my case, what looked like courage was probably just a mix of youthful ignorance and groundless optimism.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2023
  • The defamation suit was dismissed as groundless, and Ramos railed against newspaper staff on Twitter.
    — Brian Witte, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • And in the minds of millions, including some of those who sacked the Capitol, those outlets helped legitimize the groundless fraud claims.
    — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2021
  • The claims of an invasion of the Eastern seaboard by swarms of drones has every marker of a groundless social media frenzy.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • China says such allegations are groundless.
    — Chan Ho-Him, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • Our analysis is that Comey’s letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 10 May 2017
  • The turn of the 20th century saw a dizzying array of wellness gurus and gospels, some far more bizarre and groundless than a ban on kissing.
    — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2022
  • The rider who smashed his phone insisted in an interview with Chinese state media that the complaint lodged against him was groundless.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Trump has persisted in pushing the groundless rumors since the debate, posting a string of memes about it on Truth Social.
    — Erin Doherty, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Just because a judge ruled that the lawsuit was groundless doesn’t mean that the concept of having animals taken as prisoners to perform tricks is right.
    — WSJ, 22 Jan. 2017
  • In a May statement to the radio station, the Hawks said the allegations directed at the team were groundless.
    — Jay Cohen, chicagotribune.com, 14 July 2021
  • Trump has been spreading groundless claims that the Bidens used their family name to get China and Ukraine to pay them millions of dollars.
    — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The military seized power over groundless claims of voter fraud in a general election in November that the league won in a landslide.
    — David Pierson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The injury done to Page doesn’t mean the FBI investigation was groundless.
    — Doyle McManus, Twin Cities, 13 Dec. 2019
  • In a May statement to the radio station, the Blackhawks said the allegations directed at the team were groundless.
    — Jay Cohen, sun-sentinel.com, 13 July 2021
  • In a May statement to the radio station, the Blackhawks said the allegations directed at it were groundless.
    — Jay Cohen, ajc, 12 July 2021
  • In a May statement to the radio station, the Blackhawks said the allegations directed at it were groundless.
    — Jay Cohen, ajc, 28 June 2021
  • All those who knew Sir Edward Heath or worked with him are, without exception, convinced that the allegations of child abuse will all be found to be groundless.
    — Angela Dewan and Hilary McGann, CNN, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The relationship is clearly hostile and at the front of mind, which is why Trump seems determined to will Biden back into the race with groundless claims of a convention coup.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Lawmakers, judges and other public servants, all under groundless presidential attack.
    — James D. Zirin, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The most extreme version of this debate over Kirk’s views on Israel emerged with shocking velocity after his death, in the form of groundless claims that he’d been killed by the Israelis.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Secretary Kennedy’s team seeks to make autism compensable under vaccine-injury rules, turning diagnoses into groundless lawsuits while draining resources from real causes and care.
    — Tom Frieden, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2025

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