fruitless
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Toward the end of a long, fruitless pitch meeting with a gaggle of writer-animators, Nickelodeon executive Mary Harrington put on Bartlett’s show reel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
I spent fruitless hours testing my employer’s patience, neglecting my more immediate work while dredging up zero-retweet Twitter posts from the early 2010s.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
"I've been asking around since Friday, but they're nowhere to be found," a woman named Mabel told AFP in Barcelona after another fruitless search.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The ones that played put in hard but fruitless shifts.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
It was like climbing a sheer wall, and as fruitless.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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Power Suffix: -less
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