bloodless

Example Sentences

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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

"Democracy" is a word that may sound soaring to political junkies, but feels bureaucratic and frankly bloodless to many others.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2024

He was the one who told her in the summer of 1973, when Mariam was fourteen, that King Zahir Shah, who had ruled from Kabul for forty years, had been overthrown in a bloodless coup.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini