pointless
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Nevertheless, “it was pointless to argue,” he concluded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“A half-hour of hard-driving rock led straight into mid-tempo sludge like ‘Fingerprint File,’ a pointless but not purposeless exercise whose supposed function was to prove that Jagger could play guitar competently.”
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
"If your child thinks their outcomes won't meet your expectations, they may start to feel that their effort is pointless," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Removing tax from period products in Jersey's shops would be "pointless", the social security minister has said.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
It is pointless to make big plans because you never know when someone is going to wake you up in the middle of the night and say, “The day of reckoning has arrived.”
From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo
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