pointless
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"The playground was just an asphalt strip between two rows of prefab buildings," he said, adding meetings with education authorities proved pointless.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Research suggests that feelings of financial nihilism — when people believe that traditional financial planning is pointless because long-term stability is out of reach — are especially common among younger Americans.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Skeptics find such programs less pernicious than pointless; a New York Times reporter dubbed them a “kumbaya industrial complex.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“A half-hour of hard-driving rock led straight into mid-tempo sludge like ‘Fingerprint File,’ a pointless but not purposeless exercise whose supposed function was to prove that Jagger could play guitar competently.”
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
I guess if there were only six of us training here, walls were kind of pointless.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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