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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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The motive behind the trend is rather unclear, but like much of Gen-Z and Generation Alpha culture, the meaning could come from the meaninglessness.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
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The irony and meaninglessness of the carnage rankles, especially when Ulysses is presented as such a nice guy who is prone to de-escalation in his day-to-day work.—
Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Students who graduate without knowing how to work with these tools risk irrelevance.—
Ann Kirschner,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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This is familiar territory for singular sports figures; think of how, over three seasons of 100 Foot Wave, big-wave surfer Garrett McNamara has opened up about his own vacillation between craving dominance and fearing irrelevance.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 May 2026
Noun
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Payton never has feelings of inadequacy or insecurity.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
15 May 2026
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The inadequacy of that shipping rate continues to have daily real-world consequences.—
Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
8 May 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 25 May. 2026.
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