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fruitless search

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meanings of fruitlessand search


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fruitless
adjective
uk /ˈfruːt.ləs/ us /ˈfruːt.ləs/
If an action or attempt to do something is fruitless, it is unsuccessful or produces nothing ...
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search
noun
uk /sɜːtʃ/ us /sɝːtʃ/
an attempt to find someone ...
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Examples of fruitless search


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At the moment it is engaged in a fruitlesssearch for some form of public ownership and it cannot even decide on the candidate industries.
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Hansard archive

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It involves a long and almost always fruitlesssearch of employment exchanges and elsewhere, trying to find somebody who can look after his business in his absence.
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Hansard archive

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I have been trying for some time to obtain a little clerical assistance in performing my very modest duties, but it has been a vain and fruitlesssearch.
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Meanwhile, the admiral is ordered to give up his fruitlesssearch.
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Teatralna station was reopened late afternoon after police completed a fruitlesssearch for possible explosives.
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But tragically, her ultimately fruitlesssearch led her to many dead-ends.
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The moths inadvertently pollinate them by transferring pollen from flower to flower in their fruitlesssearch for nectar.
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In several cases these reports led to fruitless searches.
After almost 20 years of fruitless searching for a way out, it is now entirely appropriate to debate the next steps, including possible changes to the negotiating mechanism.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
After eight more years of fruitless searches, most astronomers assumed that there were no more and abandoned any further searches.
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Wikipedia

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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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