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Recent Examples of directionless
Both women embark on long, directionless walks while holding weapons.
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Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025
Numerous political pundits and several polls suggest that the national Democratic Party is directionless and losing touch with large swaths of working-class voters.
—Will Oneill, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
Clark felt lost, alone and directionless.
—Autumn Barnes, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
The action begins as an angry, volatile, directionless young man goes out for a night on the town with friends, drinking, drugging and looking for a fight.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
While the moving averages have been largely directionless in recent months, the stock has been doing a good job of using this cluster of lines as support.
—Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
Seattle currently feels like one of the most bland and directionless teams and that shows with how the club is regarded across most categories.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
Unstructured, context-free datasets are like maps without legends—large but directionless.
—Adrian Stelmach, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025
Numerous political pundits and several polls suggest that the national Democratic Party is directionless and losing touch with large swaths of working-class voters.
—Will Oneill, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
Clark felt lost, alone and directionless.
—Autumn Barnes, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
The action begins as an angry, volatile, directionless young man goes out for a night on the town with friends, drinking, drugging and looking for a fight.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
While the moving averages have been largely directionless in recent months, the stock has been doing a good job of using this cluster of lines as support.
—Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
Seattle currently feels like one of the most bland and directionless teams and that shows with how the club is regarded across most categories.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
Unstructured, context-free datasets are like maps without legends—large but directionless.
—Adrian Stelmach, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for directionless
Adjective
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But here’s a question: How much longer can the country afford to lure so many of its promising talents into a life of purposeless paper-pushing and legalized economic vandalism that antitrust has become?—
Holman W. Jenkins,
WSJ,
10 May 2022
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In How To Do Nothing, Jenny Odell talks about how the pursuit of productivity — driven by capitalism, competition, and consumption — has redirected our attention outward, leaving us feeling empty and purposeless.—
refinery29.com,
refinery29.com,
7 Sep. 2021
Adjective
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Maia has help from her friends Charlie (Jordan Firstman), a pop star stylist and Alani (True Whitaker), an aimless movie biz nepo baby.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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The story of an aimless college grad’s dalliance with an older woman—only to fall for her daughter—is as sophisticated as comedies, and coming of age stories, get.—
John Ortved,
Vogue,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Directionless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/directionless. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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