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Recent Examples of nothingness
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.
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 Feb. 2025
To cushion their sinuous eucalyptus forms, the duo came up with their own spin on traditional Banarasi fabric: an archival herringbone motif overlaid with numerical zeros that nod to Brahmagupta, the Hindu mathematician who developed the concept of nothingness in 628 AD.
—Mel Studach, Architectural Digest, 21 Jan. 2025
Much of the story seems to be about waiting, and then what happens after that waiting comes to an end: the disappointment, pain, or even nothingness that eventually follows.
—Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
In addition, Earth is positively miniscule compared to the vast expanses of nothingness that define the volume of our Solar System.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 10 May 2024
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 Feb. 2025
To cushion their sinuous eucalyptus forms, the duo came up with their own spin on traditional Banarasi fabric: an archival herringbone motif overlaid with numerical zeros that nod to Brahmagupta, the Hindu mathematician who developed the concept of nothingness in 628 AD.
—Mel Studach, Architectural Digest, 21 Jan. 2025
Much of the story seems to be about waiting, and then what happens after that waiting comes to an end: the disappointment, pain, or even nothingness that eventually follows.
—Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
In addition, Earth is positively miniscule compared to the vast expanses of nothingness that define the volume of our Solar System.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 10 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nothingness
Noun
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Prince was the last artist to claim three albums in the top 10 following the singer’s 2016 death.—
Marc Griffin,
VIBE.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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One in 20 children with the disease will get pneumonia, which is the leading cause of death from measles in young children.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The one thing the insomniac does not envy is the unconscious dead.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Four people were sentenced in connection to a shooting death that left a 3-year-old dead in Ohio.—
Jennifer Rodriguez,
Kansas City Star,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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That includes a University of Houston study of maternal mortality that examines why Black, Indigenous and other people of color in the U.S. are nearly three times as likely as white women to die during pregnancy or within the first year after childbirth.—
Agnel Philip,
ProPublica,
28 Feb. 2025
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On top of that, the report concluded (with moderate certainty) that when compared with never drinking, moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular mortality in both men and women.—
Avery Hurt,
Discover Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Nothingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nothingness. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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