as in nothingness
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Noun
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From there, the movie around her is soon reduced to a nothingness of its own making.—
Chase Hutchinson,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2025 -
If Derek Jeter invented the strategy of preemptive blandness, a verbal jiu-jitsu move that cloaks every utterance in a gauze of impenetrable nothingness, Tom Brady has earned a Vantablack® belt in the discipline.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The body simply won’t lose consciousness, and losing it is something that cannot be willed into existence, or, rather, into nonexistence.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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There are a lot of ways to interpret that, but one thing that is built into the conceit of the show is that, for the innies, the choice is work or nonexistence.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
17 Jan. 2025
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Conor’s passionately absorbing, poignantly observed self-refraction from individuality into idiosyncrasy lends his very reality an air of unreality.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2025
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The unreality of the present moment should be a boon for artists and all who deal in the imagination.—
Dean Kissick,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Dec. 2024
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“Nonbeing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonbeing. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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