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Discover LudwigThe phrase "achieving nothing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where no progress or results are being made despite efforts.
Example: "After hours of discussion, we realized we were just going in circles and achieving nothing."
Alternatives: "making no progress" or "gaining no results".
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Co-operation is a fine ideal, but it's achieving nothing.
She felt that she was achieving nothing at her job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This system inevitably leads to overcompensation of chief executives and rewards for achieving nothing.
"You can't get to a certain point and then go back — you end up achieving nothing," Mr. Rozen said.
In acting shocked, they too, were playing a rehearsed role, achieving nothing, but sending the signal expected of them.
You make something sound good and, hey presto, you've achieved the political chimera of achieving nothing while looking good".
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If our leaders could agree to this compromise the debate about tax reform could move beyond the vagaries of partisan politics--which is achieving nothing--and get down to brass tacks of solving technical problems and working out compromises with special interests.
That would achieve nothing.
Further attacks achieved nothing.
It achieves nothing.
They achieve nothing.
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