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as in cipher
a person of no importance or influence
that tiny country's ambassador from the U.S. is usually some nullity who happens to be a friend or supporter of the current president
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as in negligibility
the quality or state of being unimportant
one of the basic themes of the theater of the absurd is the essential nullity of human existence
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Recent Examples of nullity
Journal Editorial Report: How to make Congress a nullity.
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Giovanni Caforio, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2023
The thousands of votes already cast and those to be cast on Aug. 8, 2023, for mayoral candidates would be a nullity.
—Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2023
There were pillows on the couch, a whole flotilla of them, and there were two armchairs flanking it, a coffee table, bookshelves, the black nullity of a flat-screen TV affixed to the wall across from her.
—T. Coraghessan Boyle, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
The overall Pessoan effect—of fertility and nullity overlaid, of a teeming garden spied through the transparent body of a phantom—gathers into a single sensation extremes of modern exuberance and despair.
—Benjamin Kunkel, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
Kyrsten Sinema has spent the last year participating in a Beltway social experiment that might determine whether an intellectual nullity, clad in Instagrammable vintage wear, might be passed off as a brave and serious centrist ideologue.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2021
The Vatican announces reforms to the legal structures Catholics must follow to achieve marital nullity.
—Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 6 June 2021
However, the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong and the electoral-system revamp have rendered it a nullity.
—Aaron Rhodes, National Review, 18 Mar. 2021
Later antislavery champions, including Abraham Lincoln, always considered the Northwest Ordinance to be organic to the Constitution; proslavery advocates came to regard it as an illegitimate nullity.
—Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020
Giovanni Caforio, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2023
The thousands of votes already cast and those to be cast on Aug. 8, 2023, for mayoral candidates would be a nullity.
—Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2023
There were pillows on the couch, a whole flotilla of them, and there were two armchairs flanking it, a coffee table, bookshelves, the black nullity of a flat-screen TV affixed to the wall across from her.
—T. Coraghessan Boyle, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
The overall Pessoan effect—of fertility and nullity overlaid, of a teeming garden spied through the transparent body of a phantom—gathers into a single sensation extremes of modern exuberance and despair.
—Benjamin Kunkel, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
Kyrsten Sinema has spent the last year participating in a Beltway social experiment that might determine whether an intellectual nullity, clad in Instagrammable vintage wear, might be passed off as a brave and serious centrist ideologue.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2021
The Vatican announces reforms to the legal structures Catholics must follow to achieve marital nullity.
—Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 6 June 2021
However, the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong and the electoral-system revamp have rendered it a nullity.
—Aaron Rhodes, National Review, 18 Mar. 2021
Later antislavery champions, including Abraham Lincoln, always considered the Northwest Ordinance to be organic to the Constitution; proslavery advocates came to regard it as an illegitimate nullity.
—Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nullity
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Ferreira struggles a bit more to find the depth in her role; her character comes off as merely a cipher, a stand-in for an audience similarly positioned as outsiders.Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
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Editor’s picks For decades, Patricia McGlone was a cipher, a ghost.Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
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Two high school nobodies make the decision to crash the last major celebration before the new millennium on New Year’s Eve 1999.Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
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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
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Emperor tamarins are dwarf monkeys with whiskers that resemble a white moustache.Robert Higgs, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
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The dwarf variety grows to be about 5 to 7 feet, ideal for a small garden or accent in a room with limited space.Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2023
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Its lightweight and easy to pack back up. $60 $45 at Amazon $60 $45 at BioLite Coleman's portable grill is also still on sale.Meaghan Kenny, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Dec. 2024
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This creamy lipstick provides your pout with full coverage, delivering a mesmerizing, multi-dimensional finish that is transfer-proof and lightweight.Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
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Elsewhere, humans are waging war against other kinds of invasive insects.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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In this, people are the amplifying hosts, and the virus is transmitted between them by blood-eating insects.Geraldine Castro, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2024
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At the time the house was a nonentity, the models dull, the clients wealthy women who did not dress in the latest styles.Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
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Putin appointed a political nonentity in his place, shifted himself to the position of prime minister, and came right back for a third presidential term in 2012 and then a fourth.Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
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“Nullity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nullity. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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