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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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His truck was low on fuel, and water pressure was anemic.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
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The blockbuster delivered a rare dose of good news for the Chinese film industry, which is struggling with anemic ticket sales and a slumping economy.—
Claire Fu,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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This group includes nonviolent detainees who usually are given wristbands or ankle monitors, or told to check in by telephone, so that authorities can monitor them until their immigration court dates.—
Russell Contreras,
Axios,
25 Feb. 2025
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Before her commutation, Johnson, now 69 years old, had spent more than 20 years in federal prison for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense.—
Chandelis Duster,
NPR,
25 Feb. 2025
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Court records are replete with judges sentencing people convicted of unquestionably violent crimes to decades in prison while proclaiming that the person before them is heartless, irredeemable, and will forever be a threat to society.—
Steve Zeidman,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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Many of the angel families here today were betrayed by the last administration and with its heartless, and foolish, and really very arrogant and dumb policies.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 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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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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That's because the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and peaceable assembly are fundamental protections of our ability to criticize public officials.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 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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Human failings amidst an unfeeling snowpocalypse make for some engaging scenes.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
22 Dec. 2024
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Newsom has been trying to cool the political rhetoric and respond more conciliatory, visiting both Democrats and Republicans.—
David Lightman,
Sacramento Bee,
6 Feb. 2025
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Any settlement would be a highly conciliatory gesture to Trump.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Bloodless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodless. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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