Example Sentences

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Even if the regime doesn’t fall, it will be leaderless, impoverished, isolated, besieged, mostly disarmed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

Like many youth movements in Asia, Nepal's Gen Z protests were leaderless.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025

When this collision occurred, the Federal Aviation Administration was leaderless.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2025

Phil is leaderless without a chief executive and with Dudamel’s tenure ending after two more seasons.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2024

We had been an idiosyncratic, leaderless band in the summer, undirected except by the eccentric notions of Phineas.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles