Example Sentences

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You can start to help yourself by not hopelessly mass-applying to jobs.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

The teenage Felix is hopelessly clumsy around women.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

To me, it seems more accurate to say that it's a coalescence - or maybe a collision - of social media with a troubled and hopelessly confusing world.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

With such measures, an AI surveillance regime might be revealed not as modern, but hopelessly obsolete.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

She had used this same quill many times before without complaint, but the mere thought of the gleaming new fountain pen made it seem hopelessly old-fashioned, like a prop from a play set long ago.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood