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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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Mondragon, though, mostly transcends meaninglessness by having to stare intensely at a stranger’s reaction — the medium is the message, as always.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
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In much of government, the line between neutral analysis and policy advocacy is blurry to the point of meaninglessness.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Her fear that her professional irrelevance has come too soon—an anxiety not often explored in Hollywood’s midlife-crisis narratives—is unexpectedly affecting.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
5 Mar. 2026
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Weisz’s antiheroine is a middle-aged professor with chronic writer’s block and mounting insecurity about her potential irrelevance, both erotic and pedagogical.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Students and their families are a vital part of the equation and have their own direct experience with education funding adequacy or inadequacy.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Mar. 2026
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What was submerged gets exposed, including artistic, curatorial, and historical work that was always there, sustained by Central Asian artistic communities; also revealed is the inadequacy of the frameworks that structure visibility itself.—
Anel Rakhimzhanova,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 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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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 10 Mar. 2026.
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