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Recent Examples of nothingness
Her sentences, always at the shore of some great nothingness, have the intricacies and echoes of a conch shell.
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Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
My ophthalmologist had plunged me into a diagnostic void, into a world of clinical nothingness.
—Peter Ubel, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
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
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Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
My ophthalmologist had plunged me into a diagnostic void, into a world of clinical nothingness.
—Peter Ubel, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nothingness
Noun
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His cause of death is currently undetermined, as an autopsy has not been completed.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
29 Mar. 2025
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An official cause of death has not been announced until an autopsy can be made.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The Congolese government puts the number of dead so far at 7,000.—
Michela Wrong,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Mar. 2025
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The contracts the counties signed to turn over their unclaimed dead to the Health Science Center drew little scrutiny prior to NBC News’ reporting.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC News,
27 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The effort failed largely due to high mortality and low reproductive success.—
Natalia Jaramillo,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Mar. 2025
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To stave off the depression, cognitive decline and early mortality that can come with social isolation, Dr. Richter recommended that retirees replace workplace socializing with routine in-person or virtual gatherings.—
Mohana Ravindranath,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Nothingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nothingness. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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