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nugatory

[noo-guh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, nyoo-] / ˈnu gəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, ˈnju- /




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Or by the supposed injustice of rendering the billions they’ve already invested nugatory.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 16, 2023

The committee filed suit for enforcement, lest Congress’s oversight function be rendered anemic, even nugatory.

From Washington Post Apr. 21, 2020

Yet all of these questions seem, increasingly, merely nostalgic, nugatory, in the face of the dissolution of the common solidarity of principles that had once made the liberation happen.

From The New Yorker Jun. 6, 2019

Usually the efforts have been nugatory: In the 1988 general election, for instance, he received 47,004 votes, or 0.05% of the nationwide total.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2016

These, with the infinitude of things, have been eternally deliberated by the omniscient mind, who can admit of no additional intelligence, whether by prayer or otherwise, which renders it nugatory.

From Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion by Allen, Ethan




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