Example Sentences

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It’s clear this mindlessness is no longer tenable.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

All our knowledge-seeking will be for naught, because everything we have learned will be forgotten as the universe lapses into utter, irreversible mindlessness.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2021

Complaints about the mindlessness of television used to be louder.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2020

There, he alternates between mowing the lawn and writing — the mindlessness of operating a push mower helps him come up with creative ways to transition out of difficult scenes.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2019

She started to get that sense of mindlessness again.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata