How to Use groundless in a Sentence
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The opinion also found the claims about Burbey’s alleged conduct that led to the ban were groundless.
—Allan Vought, The Aegis, 6 July 2018
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Many of the bills appear to be directly the result of Trump's groundless fraud claims in the 2020 election.
—Nicholas Reimann, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
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The suit was dismissed as groundless and Ramos railed against the newspaper staff on Twitter.
—Brian Witte, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
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Since election day, more evidence has proved that Trump’s claims of fraud are groundless.
—Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2021
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Hassan's record of reaching across the aisle and Bolduc's embrace of Trump's groundless claims that the 2020 election was stolen have Miller voting blue this year.
—USA Today, 4 Nov. 2022
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And in the minds of millions, including some of those who sacked the Capitol, those outlets helped legitimize the groundless fraud claims.
—Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2021
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In a May statement to the radio station, the Hawks said the allegations directed at the team were groundless.
—Jay Cohen, chicagotribune.com, 14 July 2021
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The turn of the 20th century saw a dizzying array of wellness gurus and gospels, some far more bizarre and groundless than a ban on kissing.
—John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2022
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The injury done to Page doesn’t mean the FBI investigation was groundless.
—Doyle McManus, Twin Cities, 13 Dec. 2019
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Trump has been spreading groundless claims that the Bidens used their family name to get China and Ukraine to pay them millions of dollars.
—Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
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Since January, even more evidence has shown that Trump’s claims of fraud are groundless.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2021
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The defamation suit was dismissed as groundless, and Ramos railed against newspaper staff on Twitter.
—Brian Witte, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
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But these worries are – at least as far as large language models are concerned – groundless.
—Nir Eisikovits, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023
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The Trump administration has dismissed the case as groundless, and Mr. Brunson has denied the charges.
—Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
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In a May statement to the radio station, the Blackhawks said the allegations directed at the team were groundless.
—Jay Cohen, sun-sentinel.com, 13 July 2021
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In a May statement to the radio station, the Blackhawks said the allegations directed at it were groundless.
—Jay Cohen, ajc, 12 July 2021
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And rights are certainly not arbitrary or groundless, given to us capriciously by a state that can take them away at will.
—Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 20 June 2019
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Similar posts making the groundless claim were shared hundreds or thousands of times online.
—Beatrice Dupuy, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
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In my case, what looked like courage was probably just a mix of youthful ignorance and groundless optimism.
—Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2023
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China’s Defense Ministry publicly dismissed the U.S. complaint as groundless at the time.
—Jeremy Page, WSJ, 3 May 2018
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All those who knew Sir Edward Heath or worked with him are, without exception, convinced that the allegations of child abuse will all be found to be groundless.
—Angela Dewan and Hilary McGann, CNN, 5 Oct. 2017
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The military seized power over groundless claims of voter fraud in a general election in November that the league won in a landslide.
—David Pierson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
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Just because a judge ruled that the lawsuit was groundless doesn’t mean that the concept of having animals taken as prisoners to perform tricks is right.
—WSJ, 22 Jan. 2017
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Again, a more sober analysis indicates that these charges are largely groundless.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
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Our analysis is that Comey’s letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 10 May 2017
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The Chinese Embassy in Washington said criticism of Huawei was groundless.
—Eva Dou, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2021
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Gibbens said the state's claims were groundless, noting that the city also has fiscal oversight of Orleans Civil District Court where the mayor and city are often parties to lawsuits.
—Kevin Litten, NOLA.com, 8 Dec. 2017
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Last year, Iran’s government dismissed charges against Mabna as groundless.
—Rob Taylor, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
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Responding to the charges, Volkswagen said the allegations are groundless and any trial would prove them to be unfounded.
—Karin Matussek, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2019
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But most of his assertions on hot-button topics like Jan. 6, the 9/11 terror attacks and demographic changes in the U.S. were groundless or have been repeatedly debunked.
—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
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