nugatory
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But logically and empirically, the differences between the claims are nugatory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024
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
The spurious Shelley letters were, as might have been expected, nugatory, barren of any new revelations of Shelley’s character.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
Vocabulary lists containing nugatory
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