• n.
    ⦿an action, often used negatively and without consequences
    lexical concept
  • an exercise in cheap talk
  • an exercise in futility

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:exercise
wn:interlingual indexili:in

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelexercise