as in voiceless
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Recent Examples of tongueless
The actor also played the tongueless Avox cameraman Pollux in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and 2 (2014, 2015).
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Helen Murphy, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2023
Arc’teryx, the high-end Canadian apparel company, has taken a step into footwear, and its inaugural line offers progressive features like a tongueless design and a laminated one-piece upper.
—Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 14 May 2015
Designers added 20 percent more cushioning than prior generations, there’s three more millimeters of it, and the upper has a new tongueless bootie construction that makes pulling on the Triumph feel like slipping into a sock.
—Justin Nyberg, Outside Online, 14 May 2015
By prolonging the tongueless fish’s life, the isopod might gain enough time to mate and release her eggs.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 July 2021
Helen Murphy, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2023
Arc’teryx, the high-end Canadian apparel company, has taken a step into footwear, and its inaugural line offers progressive features like a tongueless design and a laminated one-piece upper.
—Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 14 May 2015
Designers added 20 percent more cushioning than prior generations, there’s three more millimeters of it, and the upper has a new tongueless bootie construction that makes pulling on the Triumph feel like slipping into a sock.
—Justin Nyberg, Outside Online, 14 May 2015
By prolonging the tongueless fish’s life, the isopod might gain enough time to mate and release her eggs.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tongueless
Adjective
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Imposing duties drives up the cost of business for so many of these effectively voiceless U.S. companies, the financial impact on whom must not be taken into consideration by the U.S. International Trade Commission – the agency rendering the injury determination.—
Dan Ikenson,
Forbes,
29 Feb. 2024
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Last year, neuroscientists at the University of California, San Francisco published a high-profile paper in The New England Journal of Medicine detailing how artificial neural networks coupled with a brain implant helped a paralyzed and voiceless man regain the ability to talk via a computer.—
Jonathan Vanian,
Fortune,
24 Feb. 2022
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Laura, who lost her daughter Cathy months prior, is already looking after a young foster child named Ollie (Jonah Wren Phillips), a strange, selectively mute boy who has an insatiable appetite and a blood feud with the family cat.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
16 May 2025
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Roku’s advancements in remote technology over the last 15 years are visually subtle, and include a volume rocker and mute button on the right edge and a pinhole microphone near the top for voice control.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
6 May 2025
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“Tongueless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tongueless. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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