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to no purpose

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After 36 hours occupying a valuable bed to no purpose, I was released from hospital to go home for the night - although the paperwork for my release took four hours.

From BBC

Get pumped for the debt-ceiling debate, when we are excited to maybe cause the country to default, which will be very bad for the economy but will allow us to showcase the distinctive brand of shouting to no purpose for which you’ve come to rely on us!

They found Faber’s invention to be a strange device with little to no purpose.

From Slate

Gary Abernathy was wrong to claim that the Jan. 6 committee served little to no purpose.

The league also announced that it will stop requiring recruits to take the Wonderlic Contemporary Cognitive Ability Test, a measure of intelligence that critics have slammed for embarrassing some players for their low scores to no purpose.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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