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also zeroes
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as in numbers
a person of no importance or influence
those snobs on the cruise ship tried to make me feel like a complete zero
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as in depths
the lowest point or level
after several dating disasters, my confidence with the opposite sex is at zero
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Recent Examples of zeros
For those on a budget with slightly less zeroes, RPM Bakehouse is a more laissez-faire, cafe-slash bakery.
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Kate Dingwall,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
Kids whose families had been chased out of half of Europe started the picture studios, the scrap yards that became fortunes, and eventually the software companies that created a whole new world of ones and zeros.
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Anthony Scaramucci,
Fortune,
28 June 2026
Those bits are oriented as either ones or zeroes, indicating on/off switches that make up the basic inputs of any task performed by a computer.
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Emily Chang,
ABC News,
22 June 2026
The Skippers pushed their advantage to 6-0 before the clock hit triple zeroes in the opening frame.
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Brendan Connelly,
Boston Herald,
9 June 2026
Just trying to go out there and put up zeros or a one to keep the team in the game.
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Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 June 2026
That’s a 13-run fourth inning, sandwiched around eight zeroes.
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Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
That’s someone who has assets valued at $1,000,000,000,000 or more, to view it in terms of zeroes.
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Yasmin Vossoughian,
NBC news,
4 June 2026
Amelia Campbell threw a complete game for seventh-seeded Simley, and kept the contest knotted at zeros until the bottom of the third, when Byron broke through with a pair of unearned runs scored on a single by Kaydence Fjerstad.
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Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
2 June 2026
Kate Dingwall,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
Kids whose families had been chased out of half of Europe started the picture studios, the scrap yards that became fortunes, and eventually the software companies that created a whole new world of ones and zeros.
—
Anthony Scaramucci,
Fortune,
28 June 2026
Those bits are oriented as either ones or zeroes, indicating on/off switches that make up the basic inputs of any task performed by a computer.
—
Emily Chang,
ABC News,
22 June 2026
The Skippers pushed their advantage to 6-0 before the clock hit triple zeroes in the opening frame.
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Brendan Connelly,
Boston Herald,
9 June 2026
Just trying to go out there and put up zeros or a one to keep the team in the game.
—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 June 2026
That’s a 13-run fourth inning, sandwiched around eight zeroes.
—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
That’s someone who has assets valued at $1,000,000,000,000 or more, to view it in terms of zeroes.
—
Yasmin Vossoughian,
NBC news,
4 June 2026
Amelia Campbell threw a complete game for seventh-seeded Simley, and kept the contest knotted at zeros until the bottom of the third, when Byron broke through with a pair of unearned runs scored on a single by Kaydence Fjerstad.
—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
2 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for zeros
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Even packed with her belongings, the purse zips smoothly and doesn’t look bulky, which is a win for a mini bag.
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About 400 miles north of Hesperia, the highway zips out of California and into Nevada (around Topaz Lake), heads north for about 88 miles through Carson City and Reno, and then reenters the Golden State around Cold Springs.
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Consider a dashboard that shows applications, including keys and libraries; network traffic protocols and ciphers; hardware, such as HSMs and TPMs; and third-party dependencies, including cryptographic or software bills of materials.
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As zonky cross-generational ciphers go, the group’s debut, Strictly 4 the Scythe, is no Hypnotize Camp Posse, the amalgam of Three 6 Mafia and a grip of artists signed to their Hypnotize Minds label in the early 2000s.
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True Black 400, making the deep, dark depths of space even more gorgeous.
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For me no one explores the depths of her emotions with her voice the way Billie does.
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Yvonne and Nick’s disastrous wedding dinner is the day the cast went from nobodies to actual practitioners of the reality-television arts and sciences.
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Despite the tragicomic instability and the rotating cast of nobodies temporarily tasked with running the country, when seen in macroeconomic terms, Peru appears to be doing just fine, thank you.
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These stinging insects are black with yellow or white bands and are bigger than bees and yellow jackets.
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But Dumont wanted to look beyond insects to find out know how the spindle behaves in mammalian cells like ours.
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Jupiter, by comparison, is as much as 35 times denser than these two lightweights.
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Jupiter, by comparison, is as much as 35 times denser than these two lightweights.
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As virality goes, this is not a big number, but the passion that the account has aroused dwarfs its reach.
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Major props to the dwarfs who saw this as a convenient way to score help in the cleaning department.
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“Zeros.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zeros. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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