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meaningless

[mee-ning-lis] / ˈmi nɪŋ lɪs /


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The argument is that a fine would be meaningless if Southampton beat Hull to earn promotion to the Premier League.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

UMA founder Hart Lambur said in an email that the potential conflicts weren’t large enough to matter: “These votes didn’t shift the overall vote outcome at all and were meaningless to the final resolution.”

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

My fellow Americans, certain words have been rendered meaningless in describing the current state of affairs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

But women actually being treated as equals requires more of society than just meaningless platitudes.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026

Probably the ruffians of that time so marked innocent people as a cruel joke and the practice had persisted down through the centuries to be distorted into a meaningless Halloween prank.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith




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