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Recent Examples of bloodless
America’s dependence on overwhelming force would form the assumption that, as in Cuba, war should be quick and relatively bloodless.
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Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Instead, early actors and prop makers probably just pantomimed bloodless violence, at most using bright red cloth to signify gore.
—Mark Hay, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
And yet, welcoming that idea can shock the system because our popular conception of the American Revolution is so often encased in bloodless, gallant myth.
—Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
As far as felonies go, the bloodless armed robbery of drug dealers ranks low on the moral-outrage scale—until a victim catches a glimpse of one assailant’s face.
—Judy Berman, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
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Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Instead, early actors and prop makers probably just pantomimed bloodless violence, at most using bright red cloth to signify gore.
—Mark Hay, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
And yet, welcoming that idea can shock the system because our popular conception of the American Revolution is so often encased in bloodless, gallant myth.
—Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
As far as felonies go, the bloodless armed robbery of drug dealers ranks low on the moral-outrage scale—until a victim catches a glimpse of one assailant’s face.
—Judy Berman, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodless
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In his experiences and chronicles of the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, Curzio Malaparte was a shape-shifter—pitiless, clinical, cynical, unsentimental, indifferent to morality and idealism.—
Leah Downey,
The New York Review of Books,
7 Feb. 2026
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Told together, the overlapping stories deal with issues of mental illness, lives of quiet desperation, and the pitiless march of time.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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Indeed, after annual revisions, payroll growth averaged just 15,000 jobs per month in 2025, anemic by any historical standard outside a recession.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
11 Feb. 2026
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On top of the anemic gains, Daco has another worry.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2026
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By now, the Syrian opposition, once led by nonviolent protesters, was dominated by Islamists, who were divided and feckless and could be easily lumped together with the telegenic savageries of the Islamic State, known as ISIS.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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Activist groups such as Indivisible have trained tens of thousands of people in nonviolent tactics.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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The barber chair, the locus of Sweeney’s revenge on the heartless cruelty of a Victorian London that wrecked his life, isn’t the elaborate contraption of other productions.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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To them, he will be remembered as a cold, heartless businessman and a shamefully unkind man of the cloth who focused way too much on socializing, traveling and furthering his own agenda.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2026
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Photos shared by the department show a silvery gray fox bounding majestically across a white snowy plain beneath towering, sunlit alpine peaks.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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So far, he’s been spotted draped in a full-length, white fluffy coat and fire engine-red hat and gloves, watching the women’s downhill race, and casually chatting with onlookers at the curling mixed doubles, adorned in a zip-jacket emblazoned with Team USA players’ faces.—
Sheena McKenzie,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Human societies are more peaceable but not necessarily more equal.—
Thomas Morgan,
The Conversation,
3 Feb. 2026
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Making something that is not America—is communal where America is individualist, is peaceable where America is warring.—
Katherine Packert Burke,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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The greatest accusation levied against her is the crime of being an unfeeling mother.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
11 Aug. 2025
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Then, the men had to walk around as these unfeeling, aggressive, hyper-masculine creatures.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
28 May 2025
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Her critical assessment contrasts with the governor’s more conciliatory posture.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The White House later changed course and adopted a more conciliatory approach as uproar over the shooting grew.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Bloodless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodless. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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