as in empty
having no usefulness
that expensive toy is worthless now that it's broken
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Recent Examples of worthless
In the cryptocurrency world, rug-pulling is when developers abandon a project after raising assets, leaving people with worthless tokens.
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Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Everyone in the movie struggles to some degree as well and requests to be paid with three or four U.S. dollars at a time, rather than hundreds of thousands of massively inflated, practically worthless Lebanese pounds.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
The collapse of the energy giant cost thousands of workers their jobs, while millions of investors saw their shares become worthless.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2024
Investors in a risky pool of Credit Suisse bonds got crushed when Switzerland’s financial regulator ruled the notes were worthless in the wake of the failing bank’s emergency takeover by rival UBS Group AG.
—Bloomberg, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
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Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Everyone in the movie struggles to some degree as well and requests to be paid with three or four U.S. dollars at a time, rather than hundreds of thousands of massively inflated, practically worthless Lebanese pounds.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
The collapse of the energy giant cost thousands of workers their jobs, while millions of investors saw their shares become worthless.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2024
Investors in a risky pool of Credit Suisse bonds got crushed when Switzerland’s financial regulator ruled the notes were worthless in the wake of the failing bank’s emergency takeover by rival UBS Group AG.
—Bloomberg, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for worthless
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What To Know The ASTRA Telegram channel, a project run by independent Russian journalists, said Ukraine targeted the plant in a massive drone attack, and struck an empty tank on its territory.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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With 200,000 people initially under mandatory evacuations, homes were empty, allowing criminals the opportunity to steal valuables.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
20 Jan. 2025
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Several North Florida areas are averaging less than $3 a gallon as the region remains the cheapest to get gas in the state, in some places about 25 cents cents less per gallon than South Florida.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
21 Jan. 2025
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Signing a replacement who can cover two positions, like Kelly can, would not be cheap, so that must be considered too.—
Chris Waugh,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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The lawsuit argued that Marrero and district officials used flawed data and inadequate research in making their decision to close schools.—
Jessica Seaman,
The Denver Post,
24 Jan. 2025
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Structural balance frameworks aim to stabilize budgets over the economic cycle but often fail due to their flawed design.—
Vance Ginn,
National Review,
24 Jan. 2025
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Watch my video discussion of these shows below: What were your least-favorite, no-good, terrible TV shows of 2024?—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
25 Dec. 2024
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Moving right along, Rufus (Michael Maggi), the no-good gambler who lost his wife, Salena’s, shares in the Blue faction, gets put to work by Berenice, Titus’s Judean queen-mistress-whatever.—
Sean T. Collins,
Vulture,
18 July 2024
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Her brothers, Johnny, Aaron and Jesse Matthews, have suffered for seven years, trying in vain to pry answers from the authorities.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Jan. 2025
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Everyone is skewered, from journalists and critics to agents and producers to, of course, vain movie stars, in this delightful, ultimately poignant parody.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Worthless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worthless. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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