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Six example sentences with futile, each labelled with its topic.
Grinding the same low-level quest is futile once the rewards stop scaling, and the wiki says so in bold.
Gaming
Whisking cold butter into a boiling sauce is futile; it splits every time, whatever the recipe promises.
Cooking
Watering the seedlings proved futile once the drought hardened the soil, and not one of them reached knee height.
Environment
Fouling with nine seconds left and a fifteen-point deficit is futile, but the coach did it anyway out of habit.
Basketball
Trying to time the market proved futile for the club's treasurer, who sold at the bottom twice in three years.
Finance
Camus takes the futile labour of Sisyphus, rolling a stone uphill forever, and asks whether a person could still be happy.
Philosophy
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