mindless

Example Sentences

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We all know the feeling of doom-scrolling, the mindless numbing of the brain.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

“I’m happy, I’m successful … All I had to do is stay completely away from my family,” whose “nonstop antisocial behavior and mindless belligerence and mindless priorities are toxic to me.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

That “high, mindless scream in the getaway car,” Ebert writes, “provides, for me, a very adequate vision of hell.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

But proponents see AI as a way to automate mindless tasks and wring efficiencies out of a slow-moving federal bureaucracy.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2026

He hadn’t seen anything but what was really before him—the faces of the four singers, those four ordinary men, cow-eyed and mindless and anguished as they went from sweetness to sourness to sweetness again.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut