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bloodless

[bluhd-lis] / ˈblʌd lɪs /




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But good sandwich architecture is not the same thing as bloodless optimization.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

But it does promote order by redirecting the ambitious few into what Mr. Mansfield calls “the bloodless killing of commerce” while reducing the material deprivation that encourages discontent among the many poor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

Barre seized power in a bloodless coup in 1969.

From BBC Jan. 8, 2026

For him it was a fine art, as it was for the Romans and the Greeks, not the bloodless work of engineers and applied math.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2025

Though at other moments, flickering in front of him, he sees the big kid from the entrance exams: his face gone bloodless atop the platform high above the dance hall.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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