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Think of all the bad business he’s done: swinging an impulsive deal to buy Twitter at an overpriced $44 billion valuation in 2022, kicking and screaming as he tried fruitlessly in court to get out of the deal, degrading the product, driving away advertisers, and presiding over an enormous decline in the platform’s value.

I know that she spent years fruitlessly searching for her birth mother.

As the passengers fruitlessly tried to escape, Boylan and four crew members jumped from the top deck into the waters of Platts Harbor on Santa Cruz Island.

For months the uncommitted movement — a group that formed during the Democratic primaries — has fruitlessly asked Democratic leaders to push for a ceasefire in Gaza and implement an arms embargo on Israel.

The allies—some of whom are the ones tirelessly but fruitlessly negotiating the terms of a cease-fire—clearly want the war to stop.