pointless
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"I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anybody that ever got in and out of Broomfield Hospital in 30 minutes, so it always seems like a bit of a pointless kind of advertisement," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Memory, desire and moral evasion all complicate the inquiry: It’s pointless, Sammy suggests, “to say that each consciousness is a whole world because each consciousness is a dozen worlds.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
All-hands meeting, especially when you are a new employee, can seem pointless.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Clearly, less than 24 hours on from his announcement, the downside for him is triggering what some will see as a pointless by-election that his main opponents are avoiding.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
He began a trick even more pointless: a one-handed half-dollar-to-penny transformation, but with his two quarters.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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