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Noun
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Whether through meditation, prayer, ritual, or service, spiritual engagement appears to offer a sense of belonging and alignment with something greater—an antidote to isolation and meaninglessness in an age that often prizes individualism.—
Robert B. Tucker,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025 -
She’s contacted by an alternate version of her husband who tells her that another version of their daughter, Joy, has been driven mad by the apparent meaninglessness of any single version of existence.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Every February and September, when the event takes place, critics and showgoers bemoan that the entire affair is strangled by commercialism and limping toward irrelevance.—
Ana Karina Zatarain,
New Yorker,
19 Sep. 2025
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This is why most pilots die, not of failure, but due to irrelevance.—
Aditya Vikram Kashyap,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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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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“Pointlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pointlessness. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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