as in random
lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern
he enjoyed taking aimless walks through the park
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Recent Examples of aimless
Responding to concerns that the party is somewhat aimless without an official leader, Schumer said Democrats have many talented leaders.
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Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2025
Adult Lottie, who has been played by Kessell ever since the Obi-Wan Kenobi star joined the adult cast of the Showtime series in season two, has been aimless in season three after the dismantling of her spiritual community following the events of last season’s finale.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
Why should the taxpayers subsidize the learning of agglutinative grammars by an aimless young woman who became an administrator and then left the nine-to-five workforce to become a novelist?
—Lydia Kiesling, TIME, 20 Mar. 2025
And his impulse was to build a show that felt purposely aimless.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
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Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2025
Adult Lottie, who has been played by Kessell ever since the Obi-Wan Kenobi star joined the adult cast of the Showtime series in season two, has been aimless in season three after the dismantling of her spiritual community following the events of last season’s finale.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
Why should the taxpayers subsidize the learning of agglutinative grammars by an aimless young woman who became an administrator and then left the nine-to-five workforce to become a novelist?
—Lydia Kiesling, TIME, 20 Mar. 2025
And his impulse was to build a show that felt purposely aimless.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aimless
Adjective
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Mother Nature is unpredictable, fickle, random at best.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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Clean out the dust and refresh thermal paste: Older desktops tend to overheat, which can slow things down or cause random shutdowns.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
17 May 2025
Adjective
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But Laxe’s cadence of death is nasty and arbitrary and delightful.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2025
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These bills would formalize what the Parole Board should already be doing and therefore limit arbitrary rejections.—
Julia Salazar,
New York Daily News,
16 May 2025
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