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Recent Examples of pointlessness
Such expeditions can turn into a Buddhistic exercise in enlightened pointlessness.
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Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pointlessness
Noun
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Maybe the meaninglessness is the point.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
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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
Noun
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In the fifth year of Howe’s spell as head coach, Newcastle are transformed from relegation fodder into trophy-winners, from a footballing irrelevance into a team who have competed in the Champions League twice in three seasons, reaching the round of 16 for the first time in the current one.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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The hope seemed to be that Paul, with her knack for creating riveting reality television, would help save the show from irrelevance.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The Lamont administration invited to the signing ceremony Hammersley and others who have been critical of Connecticut’s longstanding inadequacies in education funding, which have been the subject of litigation over decades, as well as the current governor’s fiscal moderation.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
17 Apr. 2026
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Enter RapidSOS RapidSOS was founded in 2012 by CEO Michael Martin, who built the company out of MIT after a personal brush with the inadequacy of 911 infrastructure.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
15 Apr. 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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Perfection alienates; wrongness invites.—
Andrey Mir,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
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In the 1940s and 50s, Pym’s spinsters had occupied a status of respectable wrongness.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Nov. 2025
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“Pointlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pointlessness. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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