nugatory

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Or by the supposed injustice of rendering the billions they’ve already invested nugatory.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2023

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

It is easy to imagine other tricks by which shrewd and experienced inquisitors could save themselves the trouble of admitting the accused to even the nugatory form of defence to which alone he was entitled.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles