aimlessly

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Recent Examples of aimlessly Others from the church wandered almost aimlessly, looking for family members. Georgea Kovanis, Freep.com, 5 Oct. 2025 But Brentford did not just aimlessly hammer balls forward. Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025 Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win. Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025 Instead of letting our legs carry us aimlessly down the road with our minds interrogating every step, our thumbs pose too simple a question to which our smartphones are pleased to give us too simple an answer. Paul Greenberg, Time, 20 Sep. 2025 Parties and shows that I was either given bad directions to and that couldn’t be found in an entire night of aimlessly driving. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025 His trash cans and other storage bins floated aimlessly about his house. Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 12 Aug. 2025 Though mentally, the Los Angeles band has been wandering for the past few years — not aimlessly, but in pursuit of a path forward. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aimlessly
randomly
Adverb
  • Kenan Thompson is also randomly there as a restaurant patron who wants free semen.
    Rima Parikh, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2025
  • These options let the computer randomly generate numbers for you.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Aimlessly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aimlessly. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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