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The phrase "action for nothing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where efforts or actions yield no results or benefits.
Example: "After months of hard work on the project, it felt like we were engaged in action for nothing when the funding was suddenly cut."
Alternatives: "effort wasted" or "work for naught".
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The race was a given from there - lots of fighting, lots of action, but for nothing.
For an individual in the modern world, it's easy to think that individual actions count for nothing.
For one, it is a will-based ethics in which intentions count for everything and external behavior or actions count for nothing.
Mr. Cuomo's campaign platform, "The New NY Agenda: A Plan for Action," is nothing if not ambitious.
As an entrepreneur, you have to lean into a bias for action because doing nothing is not an option.
Most movies are like coffee, herky-jerky, spike and drop, action then nothing for hours.
Michael Bolognino, 32, who lives in San Francisco and works in marketing, said he had encountered his share of people looking for action and nothing else on Grindr and OkCupid.
Its incantatory text, an embodiment of the morbid inwardness of intolerable grief, leaves no scope for action and nothing much to see except the ominous nightbird itself.
It is said she would rather make one or two mistakes amid a lot of action than do nothing for fear of error.
And in response, many investors feel they must take some action for fear that doing nothing will cost more than doing something.
He argued that holding an agent morally responsible for an action is nothing more than having such feelings, or "reactive attitudes," toward him.
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