traceless
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After it was presented to the chamber in 1929, it sank, virtually traceless — too big, maybe, too expensive, too ambitious, too contrarian to the plans of real estate salesmen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
A deteriorating loss of memory is, of course, no asset when one is trained in precision, ruthlessness and traceless escape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
This just before Pie herself, “a long girl, wobbly in heeled shoes, bowlegged, shifty — bored perhaps — but friendly, quick to laugh, on any errand making an impression,” disappears traceless from the village green.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2018
More will be required of them in the way of a traceless consumption of superfluities and an unexampled expensive standard of living.
From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen
Still must thou live and corybantic die, A traceless meteor in a clouding sky; Thy name a cheat; thyself, a world-wide lie?
From Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) by Julia Griffiths
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