suspicion
noun
act of suspecting.
suspicionless
-
a word derived from
suspicion.
Example Sentences
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The court records were made public this week by the ACLU, which is part of a coalition seeking to bar an “ongoing campaign of suspicionless and discriminatory detentive stops” in the Central District of California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The state’s highest court there sided with the train passenger, concluding his Fourth Amendment right against a suspicionless search and seizure had been violated when the agency conducted a “fare sweep.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2022
It should not be in the business of subjecting its passengers to intimidating interrogations, suspicionless searches, warrantless arrests, and the threat of deportation.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 3, 2020
For civil libertarians, that looks like a whole lot of suspicionless searches and nothing to show for it.
From The Verge ● Aug. 28, 2019
Justice Thurgood Marshall acknowledged as much in his dissent in Bostick, noting “the basis of the decision to single out particular passengers during a suspicionless sweep is less likely to be inarticulable than unspeakable.”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
