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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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William has been regularly using his father’s lawyers Harbottle & Lewis and its partner, Gerrard Tyrrell — and made the move to Mishcon de Reya, which represented Princess Diana in her divorce from Charles a year before her accidental death.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
10 Apr. 2025
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The drama stars June Squibb as a 90-year-old woman from Florida who moves to New York City after the death of her best friend and strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 19-year-old.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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That’s because the Romans mainly cremated their dead until the third century.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
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The Congolese government puts the number of dead so far at 7,000.—
Michela Wrong,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The Oregon Health Authority tracks xylazine, along with other illicit drugs, via mortalities and drug seizures.—
Meira Gebel,
Axios,
8 Apr. 2025
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Loneliness, isolation, and lack of purpose are all linked to worse health outcomes and higher mortality.—
Jesse Pines,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Nothingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nothingness. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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