Basic material prices are subject to so many determining factors that accurately predicting their future levels becomes an exercise in futility.

Source: https://investorplace.com/2023/08/the-3-most-undervalued-lithium-stocks-to-buy-now-august-2023/

By 1983, tired of what they deemed the futility of non-violent protests, nascent armed Tamil groups were beginning to engage in attacks against the state.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/7/29/for-sri-lankan-tamils-the-black-july-pogroms-live-on-40-years-later

Few movies drive home the futility of war quite as well as The Bridge on the River Kwai does.

Source: https://collider.com/best-movies-1950s-ranked/

I guess can you remind us at the 475 patient interim analysis, these rolling interims tested for early futility and early success.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4601310-livanova-plc-livn-q1-2023-earnings-call-transcript?source=feed_all_articles

It’s a touching story about the futility of grudges, the impossibility of escaping one’s past, and the cruelest aspects of industrialization.

Source: https://collider.com/karate-kid-movies-ranked/

It was as if the entire country had become one big TSA security line, both a constant advertisement of danger and a ludicrous exercise in futility.

Source: https://www.ocregister.com/2023/03/19/covid-19-sliced-away-freedom-in-the-united-states/

Maybe Jaxon Smith-Njigba breaks that 13 yr 1st round drafting futility trend.

Source: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/05/16/jaxon-smith-njigba-says-his-hamstring-felt-great-at-seahawks-rookie-minicamp/

Never have anxiety and consideration of life’s futility been so goddamn fun.

Source: https://chicagoreader.com/film/best-repertory-film-screenings-2023/

The futility thesis holds that attempts at political change will ultimately amount to nothing, because the policy fails to appreciate that it is attempting to alter fundamental aspects of society.

Source: https://kiowacountypress.net/content/biden-calls-assault-weapon-ban-%E2%80%93-does-focus-military-style-guns-and-mass-shootings-undermine

They are merely a Sisyphean mirage of futility meant to strengthen your tolerance for stupidity as you fall in line with the real world.

Source: https://mndaily.com/280613/opinion/opinion-the-sisyphean-nightmare-of-being-20-something/

Yet, history has shown that questioning Tesla’s outlook ends in futility.

Source: https://investorplace.com/2023/08/the-3-best-stocks-to-buy-before-the-summer-ends/