meaningless

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"When punishment fails to reflect the lifelong harm inflicted, justice becomes meaningless and survivors like me are left silenced, dismissed and profoundly failed by the very system meant to protect us," she said.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Carpenter plucks Cricket from arts college and its meaningless pontificating to his “atelier in the corn,” a ramshackle Victorian where Cricket learns how to transmute what he sees with color and light.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Without assigning a sense of consequence, the money becomes meaningless to the kid, said Matt Chancey, a certified financial planner and founder of Tax Alpha Companies in Florida.

From MarketWatch • May 29, 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

In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season — something inevitable, but meaningless at the time.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri