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Resistance is futile.futile = pointless because it cannot produce anything useful
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Negotiations between the opposing parties are increasingly looking futile.futile = pointless
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It was a futile effort that was doomed form the start.futile = pointless because it could not produce anything useful
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Later came the white heron, gliding low in futile search of a shallow edge to wade. (source)futile = effort that is pointless because it is unsuccessful
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Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? (source)futility = pointlessness (uselessness)
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he futility of what we'd just done (source)futility = pointless effort
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She would have seen destroying the manuscript was futile. (source)futile = pointless because it would be unproductive or unsuccessful
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I began to sense the futility one feels when unacknowledged by a chance acquaintance. (source)futility = worthlessness
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...he'd struggled futilely to try to pull the ghosts off Heath. (source)futilely = in a manner that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
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But men will chatter and you and I will still shout our futilities to each other across the stage until the last silly curtain falls plump!† (source)
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... the bright lights made her think only of all the futile efforts that hospitals contained to keep people awake for more bad news—the weak coffee, the hard chairs, the elevators that stopped on every floor... (source)futile = unsuccessful
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I don't let myself question the futility of it. (source)futility = pointless effort
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Whereas normally in literary works we watch characters who are our equals or even superiors, in an ironic work we watch characters struggle futilely with forces we might be able to overcome.† (source)futilely = in a manner that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
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But the idea of this dried-up pedant, this elaborator of small explanations about as important as the surplus stock of false antiquities kept in a vendor's back chamber, having first got this adorable young creature to marry him, and then passing his honeymoon away from her, groping after his mouldy futilities (Will was given to hyperbole)—this sudden picture stirred him with a sort of comic disgust: he was divided between the impulse to laugh aloud and the equally unseasonable impulse to burst into scornful invective.† (source)
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All my efforts for mere survival seemed futile. (source)futile = pointless because there was no chance of success
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...sickened by the bombing and the burning and the futility of it all. (source)futility = pointlessness
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