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Recent Examples of meaninglessness
The game’s meaninglessness didn’t matter to the raucous sellout crowd that packed SoFi Stadium.
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Greg Beacham,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2026
With its absence comes abject horror, meaninglessness, and a total loss of humanity.
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Jenny Odell,
Longreads,
2 June 2026
The motive behind the trend is rather unclear, but like much of Gen-Z and Generation Alpha culture, the meaning could come from the meaninglessness.
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ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
The irony and meaninglessness of the carnage rankles, especially when Ulysses is presented as such a nice guy who is prone to de-escalation in his day-to-day work.
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Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
The irony and meaninglessness of the violence rankles, especially when Ulysses is presented as such a nice guy who is prone to de-escalation and community care in his day-to-day work.
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Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
17 Apr. 2026
Maybe the meaninglessness is the point.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
But people familiar with OpenAI’s governing documents said that it has been diluted to the point of meaninglessness.
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Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Brooks has no interest in the broader sweep of history and, indeed, no apparent knowledge of the philosophical accounts of encroaching meaninglessness which have been on offer for centuries.
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Literary Hub,
2 Apr. 2026
Greg Beacham,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2026
With its absence comes abject horror, meaninglessness, and a total loss of humanity.
—
Jenny Odell,
Longreads,
2 June 2026
The motive behind the trend is rather unclear, but like much of Gen-Z and Generation Alpha culture, the meaning could come from the meaninglessness.
—
ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
The irony and meaninglessness of the carnage rankles, especially when Ulysses is presented as such a nice guy who is prone to de-escalation in his day-to-day work.
—
Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
The irony and meaninglessness of the violence rankles, especially when Ulysses is presented as such a nice guy who is prone to de-escalation and community care in his day-to-day work.
—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
17 Apr. 2026
Maybe the meaninglessness is the point.
—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
But people familiar with OpenAI’s governing documents said that it has been diluted to the point of meaninglessness.
—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Brooks has no interest in the broader sweep of history and, indeed, no apparent knowledge of the philosophical accounts of encroaching meaninglessness which have been on offer for centuries.
—
Literary Hub,
2 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meaninglessness
Noun
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The battle that follows — a muddy and mean scrum — is even more ghastly, partly for its utter pointlessness.
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Such expeditions can turn into a Buddhistic exercise in enlightened pointlessness.
Noun
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The asylum program continues to be shrunk into irrelevance.
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In an era of AI and rapid change, treating customers as mere constraints is a recipe for irrelevance.
Noun
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Defendants rely on cases that, ironically, only confirm the inapplicability of the § 1252(f)(1) bar here.
Noun
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This majestic sequence delivers a lifetime’s outpouring of love’s inadequacies and frustrations, of grief and regret, of gratitude along with candid acceptance of loss, and of self-questioning that never shakes the foundations of the family—her ferocious commitment to the children.
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That’s a feeling of inadequacy that not only infests Ruben’s mind, but Niall’s as well.
Noun
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The Ghanaian government statement said it was informed that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) made the decision on grounds of inadmissibility under paragraph A36(1)(c) of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).
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Only cash assistance for income maintenance or long-term institutional care is considered when determining public-charge inadmissibility.
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Perfection alienates; wrongness invites.
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In the 1940s and 50s, Pym’s spinsters had occupied a status of respectable wrongness.
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“Meaninglessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meaninglessness. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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