as in barrenness
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Noun
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Self-awareness and community are marvelous antidotes to the barrenness of conformity.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The staff didn’t plan on playing Zackery or Golden much this season, but didn’t have much choice after injuries and ineffectiveness forced a rethink.—
Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Despite the offense’s ineffectiveness Friday, TCU’s defense kept the Horned Frogs afloat with countless stops deep in their own territory — like when linebacker Kaleb Elarms-Orr broke up a would-be touchdown in the second half.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Planet’s history of volatility, ongoing unprofitability, and fierce competition categorize this as a high-risk, high-reward investment.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Happy Valentine’s Day card The vanity in the dressing room of the pop-up is the Easter egg mother lode, according to the Spotify reps, who encouraged us to look closely on it for clues.—
Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
30 Sep. 2025
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This means cleaning your toilet, vanity countertops, and scrubbing the shower door and tiles.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
28 Sep. 2025
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Brands that rely solely on AI risk not just irrelevance, but inefficacy.—
Sean DallasKidd,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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As research highlighted the inefficacy and unintended consequences of these laws, states rolled them back or modified them, mostly by partially repealing them or reducing the severity of mandatory sentences.—
John Leverso,
The Conversation,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The persistent emptiness of what might have been.—
Aisha Muharrar,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
2 Oct. 2025
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That’s because Horton’s emptiness is felt downtown wide.—
Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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At New York Fashion Week, beauty acted as a moment of reprise from the hopelessness many are feeling in the current state of the world.—
Essence,
Essence,
19 Sep. 2025
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The film certainly steers clear of Emmerichian overdrive, but it is suffused with hopelessness — on both an intimate and an epic scale.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Yet fortunes have turned more recently, with on-field inadequacies slowly but surely eating into off-field resources.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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If all of this were a subtle read of the American mainstream media’s inadequacy in covering Palestine with any amount of empathy, or its eagerness to bang the drum in support of America’s war games, that would be an unexpected, refreshingly subversive perspective.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Fruitlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fruitlessness. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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