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aimless

[eym-lis] / ˈeɪm lɪs /


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“To me, Maria is when you drive by an accident, and you don’t want to look, but you do,” she says of Didion’s aimless and troubled protagonist.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

And that in turn prevents you from aimless or unthinking financial behavior.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 24, 2025

"God help us! She is spineless, shameless and completely aimless," Badenoch told MPs.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025

Beckett’s works defy easy exegesis, but as in many of his other plays, “Endgame” presents us with stylized images of the aimless burdens of existence, the isolation that can be little eased by companionship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Perhaps from habit, then, Penelope’s aimless walking led her to the hall outside the princess’s bedroom.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood




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