pointless
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Skeptics find such programs less pernicious than pointless; a New York Times reporter dubbed them a “kumbaya industrial complex.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“A half-hour of hard-driving rock led straight into mid-tempo sludge like ‘Fingerprint File,’ a pointless but not purposeless exercise whose supposed function was to prove that Jagger could play guitar competently.”
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Passing sentence, Judge Lord Scott said Moy's death was "pointless and unnecessary".
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Memory, desire and moral evasion all complicate the inquiry: It’s pointless, Sammy suggests, “to say that each consciousness is a whole world because each consciousness is a dozen worlds.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Mutti was shouting after him, shrieking almost; but I could see it was pointless, that Karli had made up his mind.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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