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formless

[fawrm-lis] / ˈfɔrm lɪs /


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Current protesters should emulate that dignity and power, not fall into formless jeering and harassment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

There’s a wicked irony in micromanaging your entire life on Earth only to croak and have your soul potentially jettisoned to some formless state of being, entirely unknown to mere mortals.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2025

It’s like this formless, invisible gas that’s going to find you wherever you are, and so escaping it is pretty futile.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

The storm may not be over, but after a messy, formless start to life at Old Trafford we finally have evidence that a hard-pressing, direct and tactically coherent United is possible.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2025

Beyond the river the land appeared flat and empty, formless and vague, until far away it rose again like a wall, dark and drear.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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