futureless
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of futureless
Example Sentences
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It’s a film that fails to ask what might it mean, narratively, to revive our dead, only to have them live — soullessly — in this futureless state.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2023
Now it is a “dead city,” in Zelenskyy’s phrase: smashed, scorched; nearly flattened, nearly futureless.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2022
It is our sad fate that it has to happen again today and so into the futureless future.
From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2020
To idealists of the 21st century, it may seem that on many social, economic and ethical fronts the country has come to what seems a futureless halt, just as the museum’s civil rights story does.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2018
And it was Kitty that had made it flat, and cold, and futureless.
From The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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