pointless
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For months we’ve been hearing about “token limits,” or barriers that companies put in place to ensure individual employees aren’t running up massive AI bills on pointless queries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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
Passing sentence, Judge Lord Scott said Moy's death was "pointless and unnecessary".
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
"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
He was fed up with the stupid, pointless island.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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