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Recent Examples of lifelessness
Periodically, the group returns to such a state of paradoxical lifelessness, dragged by a partner or semi-mechanically traversing the stage as an automaton might.
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Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2026
Canales answered to the lifelessness in his postgame presser.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2026
Canales answered to the lifelessness in his postgame presser.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifelessness
Noun
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Notably, the movie omitted the slew of allegations that followed Jackson from the ’90s until his death in 2009.—
Emily St. Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2026
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Police said no arrests have been made in connection with the death and Grayson’s cause of death has not been determined.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
20 May 2026
Noun
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His remains showed clear signs of cannibalism, confirming early Inuit reports of desperate crew members resorting to eating their dead.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
8 May 2026
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Once the fog of chaos lifted, the police and the protesters both gathered their dead.—
Michael Peregrine,
Chicago Tribune,
4 May 2026
Noun
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Did the baby’s livingness make Tomm’s deadness louder?—
Maria Zorn,
Longreads,
24 Feb. 2026
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There is, in the end, a deadness to its clichés about writers and their subjects.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
6 Dec. 2025
Noun
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This is a guy who sees his mortality coming at him fast.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 May 2026
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Trippier was forced to confront his footballing mortality up close when Newcastle signed the exceptional Tino Livramento, then 20, in summer 2023.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
16 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Lifelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifelessness. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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