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Adverb
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The kitchen is also pointlessly complicated.—
Jason Fried,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2026 -
Trump should ask himself whether stirring a hornet’s nest serves any purpose other than pointlessly alienating a benevolent neighbor that is beginning to pad its insurance policy by reaching out to non-hemispheric powers.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Amid this slew of senselessly avoidant, irrational behavior, Duchovny’s performance emerges as the most credible.—
Natalia Winkelman,
IndieWire,
27 Jan. 2026
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Fifteen innocent souls – including a Holocaust survivor, a rabbi and a child – were senselessly murdered while celebrating the first night of Chanukah, the Festival of Light.—
Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
14 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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Inspired by the designs of the Belgian interior designer and art dealer Axel Vervoordt, its wabi-sabi interiors are an imperfectly perfect melange of cool-toned walls and warm natural materials.—
Lisa Grainger,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Feb. 2026
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That lineage reaches back to the Taíno people of Borikén, whose social organization, relationship to land, communal life, and expressive culture were documented, however imperfectly and through colonial lenses, by figures such as Christopher Columbus and Bartolomé de las Casas.—
Dr. Carlos A Torre,
Hartford Courant,
7 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Scally had already struggled after dealing inadequately with a cross, which let the high-flying visitors score their first.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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The attorney general's office also said, because the district did not show how the plaintiffs could only inadequately represent them, intervention of right was not an available option, and that intervention would unnecessarily prolong the case.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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But the campaign against Good is different—because The Homeland takes particular and perverse interest in women deemed insufficiently reverent of hearth and home.—
Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Vanity Fair,
26 Jan. 2026
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These rules would otherwise allow other countries to impose top-up taxes when profits are insufficiently taxed.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Irrelevantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrelevantly. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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