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Noun
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The undesirability of the undead state is inherent in the term itself.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 May 2026 -
There are hyper-local gags about the Williamsburg bar Union Pool and the undesirability of living in the Financial District, and a creature known as Rat Pizza — like Pizza Rat in reverse.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The fear of uselessness explains why the banker Eric Tao (Ken Leung) leaves a cushy retirement to get back to finance, even at the cost of neglecting his kids.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
2 Mar. 2026
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Advertisement In 1997, Westlake put these words in the mouth of his narrator and protagonist, the suddenly out-of-work Burke Devore, a decent man who’s driven to murder by his feelings of uselessness.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
25 Dec. 2025
Noun
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For the Cubs, trading for Soroka will either fade into irrelevance or prove to be a cautionary tale if shortstop Ronny Cruz or outfielder Christian Franklin proves to be a star in Washington.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Dec. 2025
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If Bonds never gets into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the sun will still rise, the fog will still roll into the Bay, and the Hall itself will continue to slide into irrelevance.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
4 Dec. 2025
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With its absence comes abject horror, meaninglessness, and a total loss of humanity.—
Jenny Odell,
Longreads,
2 June 2026
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Maybe the meaninglessness is the point.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Hesitation may indicate unfamiliarity—not inadequacy.—
Yann Dang,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Epidemiologists and other medical experts told the AP that the suicides in ICE custody — which previously occurred typically once or not at all each year — were cause for alarm and a sign of inadequacies in care, at a minimum.—
Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
27 May 2026
Noun
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Defendants rely on cases that, ironically, only confirm the inapplicability of the § 1252(f)(1) bar here.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
2 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Von Cramon-Taubadel’s team isn’t the first group to hypothesize about the pointlessness of the chin.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
12 Feb. 2026
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Such expeditions can turn into a Buddhistic exercise in enlightened pointlessness.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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“Intolerability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intolerability. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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