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as in nobody
a person of no importance or influence
his friends couldn't understand why he'd want to marry a girl who was an obvious nothing
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as in triviality
something of little importance
you're always worrying about nothing
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as in never
not in any degree, way, or under any condition
nothing daunted by the poor reception his first novel received, he proceeded to write another one
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as in worthless
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Recent Examples of nothing
Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2024
The stereotype of large women in horned helmets warbling silly nothings comes largely from the period when American operagoers had lost the language skills that our great-grandparents had, either as European immigrants or European-admiring, upper-class swells.
—Nicholas Gallagher, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
And just so, these clouds like lines of coke, these fine bird-bone clouds giving structure to the afternoon sky will decompose into faint nothings.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
But even before that, women like Tina Turner and Josephine Baker were wearing costumes that evoked intimate little nothings.
—Kristen Bateman, ELLE, 14 Apr. 2023
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Noun
The one whose legs turned nothings into somethings, improvising the Lions’ entire defensive game plan into a pile of ash?
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Many of Newsom’s critics who breathlessly report on his evil plans (that the left-wing mainstream media supposedly cover up) are just nobodies who feign authority and are obviously fronting for right-wing organizations.—
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Where else could award winning writers pop off about nothing at all, and nobodies could rattle the ivory towers?—
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Society has rationalized the human into triviality, and we’re stuck in a bad game.—
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Who was this irritant who had eluded the most sophisticated lawmen in the country, thanks to the triviality of his crimes?—
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Players with lots of recruiting stars next to their names and coaches with lots of zeroes on their paychecks.—
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According to Su, the current compute infrastructure runs at 100 zetaflops, but to serve 5 billion AI users worldwide, this needs to be raised to 10 Yottaflops (10 followed by 20 zeros).—
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Benn, a 17-year veteran, played with a visor for the first time in 1,216 career games, leaving Nashville center Ryan O'Reilly, Minnesota defenseman Zach Bogosian, and Sharks winger Ryan Reaves as the last three active players who have never worn a visor in an NHL game.—
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Despite some promising opportunities late, the equalizer never came as the Comets fell to a third consecutive defeat.—
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The gain from a call option would exceed the return on the stock alone, but involves greater risk than simply buying the stock because the contracts can expire worthless.—
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When Ukraine agreed to give up the nuclear weapons on its soil in the mid-1990s, Russia provided a security guarantee that proved worthless.—
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Like Dostoyevsky, Capote doesn’t portray his killers as demonic ciphers, instead capturing their messy complexity.—
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Two streetlamps engaged in a mute but luminous dialogue, an indecipherable Morse code, alluding to the silent exchanges and secret ciphers of strangers who meet there for their trysts.—
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No injuries were reported after the incident, but airport staff who witnessed the landing described hearing multiple popping sounds as the wheels hit the tarmac followed by visible smoke.—
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The 13 apartments were damaged by fire, smoke or water.—
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That doesn’t mean getting the flu shot was for naught.—
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Because of this failure, Lindsay’s good intentions and accomplishments were largely for naught.—
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“Nothing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nothing. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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