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"has been fruitless" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize that an effort or attempt has not led to a successful outcome. For example: "Despite their best efforts, their search for a new house has been fruitless."
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Research on social factors has been fruitless.
THE hunt for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in Iraq has been fruitless.
Indeed, intensive search for such proton decay has been conducted, but so far it has been fruitless.
Our struggle has been fruitless because no matter how many letters to Congress we wrote, we could never compete with the indomitable influence of the 1 percent.
And the fact that the Tories have hitherto been reluctant to say too much about why, for fear of offending their voters, is as demeaning as it has been fruitless.
Their hunt for a pathogen has been fruitless so far, triggering anxiety in a country scarred, emotionally and economically, by two devastating cattle epidemics in 15 years.
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But recruiting efforts have been fruitless.
"That would have been fruitless".
The endeavours of the investigator appear to have been fruitless.
Even bringing in the dog unit at this stage would have been fruitless.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com