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placeless

British  
/ ˈpleɪsˌlɪs /

adjective

  1. not rooted in a specific place or community

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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We are living in an age of placeless possibility: a time when we can instantly get in touch with another person no matter where they are on the planet through any number of media.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2023

There’s no room for humans in these pictures, but that’s essentially true of all the placeless places illustrated in this show.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2023

Meanwhile, the shadowy sets and placeless glamour evoke the broader tradition of German Expressionist-influenced sci-fi noir, in the vein of Brazil or City of Lost Children.

From The Verge • May 30, 2022

Entrepreneurs really are building an alternative financial system using blockchain technology, buying and selling virtual real estate, and trying to figure out how a placeless, stateless system might govern itself.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021

That thing was bodiless, blind to sunlight, a creature of a lightless, placeless, timeless realm.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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