meaningless

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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

On the final day of last year’s NFL regular season, the Cleveland Browns were wrapping up yet another losing campaign with an otherwise meaningless game.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 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

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

Yet she detested that “most meaningless of phrases, ‘plain Miss Smith.’”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield