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Needless
Definition:
(a.) Having no need.
(a.) Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses.
(a.) Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Late-night hosts blast Trumpcare: 'Needless suffering for low and middle-income people' Read more In the Harvard study, the researchers had 9,000 people in their dataset – enough that they were able to ensure they were really measuring the impact of a lack of health insurance.
(2) Needless to say, the place is now awash in self-flagellation.
(3) Above all, MPs should vote to stop needless misery for families afflicted by this rare but terrible disorder.
(4) Acknowledging that such needless expense is meat and drink to enemies of the European idea, MEPs led by the parliament's vice-president, Edward McMillan-Scott, have launched a "Single Seat" campaign to abandon "Alcatraz", as the Strasbourg building is known to some of its inmates.
(5) Its chief executive, Andy Cole, warned: "The lives of England's sickest babies are at risk by needless cuts to the neonatal nursing workforce."
(6) It permits use of both feet to operate surgical modalities, decreases microscope positioning time, and decreases needless hand movements.
(7) Shelvey had been told before the game by his manager to “wise up” against needless bookings.
(8) Cameroon midfielder Alex Song was sent off before half-time for a needless elbow in the back of Croatia's Mario Mandzukic near the halfway line, leaving his side to battle with 10 men for the majority of the game.
(9) Needless pain and anxiety can therefore be avoided for many AML patients.
(10) Needlessly high doses are bound to cause avoidable unwanted effects in a proportion of patients.
(11) Needless to say, BoKlok's brains have grappled with the conundrum.
(12) Millions of British will pay a higher price – the needless squandering of their lives.
(13) In some cases these errors led to needless radiotherapy and to an unnecessarily poor prognosis being given.
(14) This clause has given developers a much freer licence to force their plans through the system regardless of constraints, on the basis that local planning policies represent needless “burdens” on their pockets.
(15) 4.32pm BST Summary Here's a summary of what the president said: • The shutdown hurt the economy and families in a needless "self-inflicted crisis."
(16) A union spokesman said: "Unite has made recommendations to Ineos as way to save jobs and prevent needless harm to this plant and the local community.
(17) Just look at the needless intermediary company created by Dmitry Firtash in 2004 to buy gas from Russia and sell it to Ukraine, making more than $600m a year.
(18) Use of this technic will spare some patients needless radical procedures and should improve long-term cure rates by identifying those patients with truly localized disease for curative resections.
(19) If Moyes felt reprieved when Andros Townsend cut inside and curled a late shot wide, his afternoon was ruined when Paddy McNair needlessly conceded a free-kick, taken near the corner flag by Lee Chung-yong and, deep into stoppage time, an unmarked Benteke rose imperiously to clinch it.
(20) The assumption that it is often prevents informed clinical intervention and leads to needless suffering.