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nothing

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adverb

nothing

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adjective

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Recent Examples of nothing
Noun
But even before that, women like Tina Turner and Josephine Baker were wearing costumes that evoked intimate little nothings. Kristen Bateman, ELLE, 14 Apr. 2023 From Loewe’s dynamic striped wonders to Versace’s Courtney Love-esque little nothings, loose-fitting, pint-sizes dresses with major volume quickly became the garment on everyone’s minds. Kristen Bateman, ELLE, 22 Mar. 2023 But central banks can do nothing directly to increase productivity. Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020 Tearing down the names of Hood and Lee, that don’t change nothing. 1843, 2 Apr. 2020 See all Example Sentences for nothing 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nothing
Noun
  • Kelce needn’t demonstrate expertise, and neither does the panel of celebrity-class obscurities: Nicole Byer, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ron Funches, Lala Kent, and Sophia Stallone, who each recall schoolroom nobodies.
    Armond White, National Review, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Over the decades, amateurs have beaten pros, nobodies have beaten somebodies.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Any continuation of this conversation will veer far off from the triviality of Socrates’s political beliefs.
    Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Although it was considered appropriately feminine for women to care for animals, women and femininity were also considered weaker, sillier, and more frivolous than men and masculinity; caring too much for other creatures came was considered a sign of fragility and triviality.
    Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Photograph: Andrea Kane/Institute for Advanced Study This led her to the zeros of trace phi cubed.
    Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Like Schrodinger's cat, qubits can be both ones and zeros at once, a property known as superposition.
    Anand Oswal, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Adverb
  • The cause was never far from the minds of those present with many sporting the colors of the Palestinian flag in their lapels.
    John Bleasdale, Variety, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Across the country there are 28 additional federal court vacancies for which Biden never named a nominee, most of them in red states whose senators probably would have opposed his picks.
    Tobi Raji The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Aaron Ryder, a producer of Arrival, was quarantining at a hotel in Montreal, watching an army of amateur day traders drive up the value of a supposedly worthless stock.
    Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • As is so often the case, the prediction of macro is rendered as worthless as the prediction that the world is flat.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In addition to the letters, the last of which arrived in 1974, the Zodiac sent out four ciphers that would supposedly reveal his identity.
    Declan Gallagher and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Some sleuths alleged that one of the Zodiac's ciphers contained a reference to Bevilacqua, but Italian police reportedly closed their investigation into Bevilacqua in 2021.
    Jessica Sager, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Jeff Beal, owner of the Cigar Vault, said the business uses a ventilation system that recycles the air, so patrons of nearby businesses should not be bothered by the cigar smoke.
    Rachel Royster, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The Barrow County Sheriff’s Office said two of their deputies working as school resource officers rushed to the scene of the shooting, but were blocked by a haze of dust and smoke.
    Andy Rose, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • But these will come to naught unless the government can see them clearly—and find the strength to take advantage of them.
    Robert M. Danin, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2016
  • Scientists use a metric called the basic reproduction number or reproduction value — referred to as R0 and pronounced R naught — to rate how transmissible or contagious a disease is.
    Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Aug. 2021

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