useless
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Diminishing the hurt from people who have been directly affected by gun violence is a useless, cruel task.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026
She followed her father’s dictums on health: Modern medicine was nearly useless, and the “good body” would heal itself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
The illustration showed a cow proudly standing next to a strange collection of useless objects labeled as tools.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026
They bounced back from the 17th-century revolution, when the Lords was abolished by a law that declared it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
Some of the men were useless for work: Rickinson had suffered a heart attack, and Blackborrow could not walk.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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