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Recent Examples of pointlessly
My partner’s refusal to be comforted by this institutional food struck me sometimes as pointlessly obstructive and at other times as a sign of self-respect.
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Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
Few endeavors could signal virtue as pointlessly or gratuitously.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
Few endeavors could signal virtue as pointlessly or gratuitously.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pointlessly
Adverb
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Someone tried to senselessly end her life, yet now thousands of people are cheering for her and celebrating every milestone.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Benjamin Voisin, who previously worked with Ozon on Summer of 85, stars as protagonist Meursault, the novella’s French expat protagonist who senselessly kills a local man on a beach.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Godwin is a prime representative of how, for many 2026 Stagecoach performers, success represents an imperfectly perfect full-circle moment.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
Nashville Tennessean,
25 Sep. 2025
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And the work is less about choosing between roles and more about designing a life where both can coexist, however imperfectly.—
Jennifer Jay Palumbo,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Concerns that safe storage renders guns insufficiently accessible during emergencies is valid, experts told CNN in a 2021 report.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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The liberals who were also racist or sexist or spoke about groups of people in hateful ways were human beings who were insufficiently reflective of what their liberalism entailed.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Social media companies, from Meta to X, have largely abandoned any attempt at moderating content on their platforms, having previously (albeit inadequately) attempted some form of fact-checking and take-downs of incendiary material and flagrant disinformation.—
Time,
Time,
20 Sep. 2025
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For most of the nearly 20% of kindergartners who haven’t had their full schedule of shots, their families have never requested an exemption; the children are simply inadequately immunized.—
Jason Kane,
NBC news,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Pointlessly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pointlessly. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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