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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
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There will be a dividend cut by 2027, a punitive refinancing in 2029, deeper franchisee frustration, unit closures, and a slow bleed into irrelevance.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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In sacrificing its global influence for the chance to spend the past year pulverizing the previously unheard-of city of Pokrovsk in the Donbas, Russia has proved not its resilience but its near irrelevance.—
Jeremy Shapiro,
The Atlantic,
10 Sep. 2025
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Seeking punishment for a pre-existing (probably Oedipal) feeling of shame and inadequacy, some of the incarcerated seek a reality that fits their self-identity.—
Adam Solomons,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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That's just there to mask the inadequacy.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Pointlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pointlessness. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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