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frictionless (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to lack of friction.

   It would last many years because of its frictionless bearings.

   A hard border is a real possibility, and a frictionless border is almost an oxymoron.

   • 2021 May 19, Paul Stephen, “Our railway in RAIL's next 40 years: Jacqueline Starr”, in RAIL, number 931, page 40:

     In the decade ahead, the story must be one of increasingly frictionless travel.

   • 2025 June 30, Adrienne Matei, “‘Hey man, I’m so sorry for your loss’: should you use AI to text?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 5 July 2025:

     “People have sort of conditioned themselves to want a completely seamless and frictionless experience in their everyday lives 100% of the time,” says Josh Lora, a writer and sociologist who has written about AI and loneliness. “There are people who Uber everywhere, who Seamless everything, who Amazon everything, and render their lives completely smooth.” […] To her, adding AI into relationships “presupposes inadequacy” in them, and offers a sterile alternative: always saying the right thing, back and forth, frictionless forever.

2. (finance) Of a transaction or trade, without tariffs and non-tariff barriers.
   • 2018 March 1, Charles Riley, “Brexit dream of 'frictionless' trade with EU is dying”, in CNN Business‎, archived from the original on 22 April 2025:

     "There can be no frictionless trade outside of the customs union and the single market," said Donald Tusk, president of the council of all 28 EU member states.

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