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purposeless

[pur-puhs-lis] / ˈpɜr pəs lɪs /


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“So, in a way, my life seems purposeless now,” Wright continues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

Meanwhile Kendall has become, in every sense of the word, purposeless now that the competition has finished and he has lost.

From Salon ● May 30, 2023

In a crisis of this magnitude, finding the emotional space to care about a single death can feel purposeless, unnecessary.

From The Guardian ● May 2, 2020

They’ve come to perceive themselves as dispensable, uncared-for, purposeless.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2020

“I have seen the dark: dark stacked upon dark. I have seen such purposeless sorrow. I have seen fear, and dread. I have seen death. Oh, Christopher, the death!”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell




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