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Recent Examples of directionless
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.
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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
Whether driven by social apathy or artistic passion, James—effortlessly played by O’Connor with hangdog elegance—registers as a compelling update of the ’70s American male loner archetype for another dispiriting, directionless time.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
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
Whether driven by social apathy or artistic passion, James—effortlessly played by O’Connor with hangdog elegance—registers as a compelling update of the ’70s American male loner archetype for another dispiriting, directionless time.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 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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Ari is aimless and has made the executive decision to wean himself off his antidepressants; Sam is tortured by the prospect of going straight from college into a boring and unfulfilling career at Morgan Stanley.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
8 Sep. 2025
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Liam, once aimless and unhoused, quickly finds purpose in the charade as a husband and father.—
Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Directionless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/directionless. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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