pointless
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Both are still worse than bottom club Coventry, who are pointless and goalless, but have an xG of 4.21.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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
He promises to present his story faithfully; as he observes, “a dishonest memoir is as pointless as a book without a reader.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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
An involuntary, wordless shout left him as he took a few hurried steps along the drive, faltered, ran on, then stopped again, knowing that pursuit was pointless.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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