senseless
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After his audience with Macron, the pope met with bishops from the Chaldean Church of Baghdad, whom he called "signs of hope in a world marked by senseless and inhuman violence".
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Federal opposition leader Pierre Poilievre called it a "senseless act of violence."
From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026
Following the conclusion of the case, Det Ch Supt Craig Nicholson, of Humberside Police, described the incident as a "senseless tragedy".
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026
Whether with an old-fashioned one-case-per-episode or a more sprawling multistrand story, quaint or violent, historic or modern, the birthplace of Agatha Christie understands that we all need stories that make sense of seemingly senseless acts.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
“This is the sentence you’ll be diagramming,” she said to us all, and wrote it out: You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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Power Suffix: -less
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -less
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