nugatory

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Similarly nugatory paperwork errors are at the heart of two other elements of the case.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2025

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

Where those organic bodies do not exist light and heat do not exist, for nature does no useless, nugatory things.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward