without purpose

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WSJ: How did you come up with the idea of life without work and without purpose?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

Djokovic continued, waving his right hand without purpose.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2023

The prevalence of this ugly fad usage besmirches the language with a jarring oddity, without purpose in clarity or elegance.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2021

Dare to dawdle; to create without purpose; to be mediocre, even outright bad, at whatever it is you want to try.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2021

When she’d been a Christian, she had felt connected, too; but when she left the Church, she felt loose and free and light, in a universe without purpose.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman