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Recent Examples of worthless Even as tutor modes are refined and improved, students have to actively select that mode and, for now, also have to play along, deftly providing context and guiding the chatbot away from worthless, low-level questions or sycophancy. Brian W. Stone, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025 Overnight, many of those owners saw their wealth erased — their principal assets rendered worthless. Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025 Of course, such heuristics are hardly worthless. John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2025 Rare is the business that grows by intermediating what is rendered worthless by the intermediation. John Tamny, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for worthless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for worthless
Adjective
  • On third-and-9, the Cowboys came out in empty formation with running back Javonte Williams split out wide next to George Pickens.
    Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This area was mostly empty at the beginning, but the monstrous sounds of the race cars firing up their engines drew a lot of attention.
    Keenan Thompson, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This World Cup wasn’t going to be cheap to attend, but these memories for life cost so much that swathes of people can’t even toy with the idea.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Utility executives and analysts have said clean energy projects are crucial to help power new data centers and factories, because they can be built quickly and produce electricity that is relatively cheap.
    Michael Copley, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • At 1-3 and trying to give some semblance of help to their top-notch defense and trying to stay alive in an AFC North that appears to be much more flawed than anyone thought a month ago, the Browns need a win.
    Zac Jackson, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • By replacing this flawed model with one that accurately accounts for SANS physics, the team demonstrated that porosity has a negligible effect on reactor physics or criticality safety.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Resnick speaks on behalf of seething, antisocial comedians everywhere, explaining and dismissing his quirks with lots of memories childhood, such as a horrible, no-good, very bad Easter egg hunt.
    Brian Boone, Vulture, 18 June 2025
  • Watch my video discussion of these shows below: What were your least-favorite, no-good, terrible TV shows of 2024?
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The Dash, at any moment, may try in vain to dock again to change her fate.
    Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Was Paul McLaughlin’s death in vain?
    Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Worthless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worthless. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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