futile
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"We will, in short, ensure any attack against any ally proves utterly futile."
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
It’s as if the world tacitly acknowledges that getting this tale truly right is a futile pursuit.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
He has, he says, “written thousands of words and given dozens of interviews” in exasperated but frequently futile response.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Hearing the futile spinning of tires, neighbors came out en masse to figure out how to solve the problem.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
With the benefit of hindsight, surely we can see that piecemeal policy reform or litigation alone would have been a futile approach to dismantling Jim Crow segregation.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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