mindless
Example Sentences
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That “high, mindless scream in the getaway car,” Ebert writes, “provides, for me, a very adequate vision of hell.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
I did, however, notice a very slight decrease in discomfort when breastfeeding my children “peacefully:” locking myself in a room and turning on the TV to watch something mostly mindless.
From Slate • Mar. 15, 2026
But proponents see AI as a way to automate mindless tasks and wring efficiencies out of a slow-moving federal bureaucracy.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2026
Cutting out mindless, unnecessary daily expenses — like your daily coffee or subscriptions — can be the start of big changes, as author David Bach noted in the book “Start Late, Finish Rich.”
From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 2026
They’d brought so little money that he’d gone on taking mindless jobs like this one at the warehouse, and he’d gone on writing—unreasonably, against the advice of saner people.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.