How to Use zero-sum in a Sentence

zero-sum

adjective

• That's the point; this isn't a zero-sum game.
  — Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• Success in the book world is not a zero-sum game.
  — Maris Kreizman september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
• But careers are not zero-sum games.
  — Bill Gurley, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
• This isn’t a zero-sum game, where one side wins and the other loses.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
• For lawyers, that’s even more true because law is so often zero-sum.
  — John Kormanik, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• In this view, translation is at best a tug of war, at worst a zero-sum game.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
• In the end, the flow of water and sediment is a zero-sum game.
  — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
• The two run at once, often additive, rather than not zero-sum.
  — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 18 June 2026
• Trump almost always casts trade in zero-sum terms, with lots of talk about winners and losers.
  — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• Every district a zero-sum game.
  — Duane Roberts, Oc Register, 11 Oct. 2025
• Science isn’t a winner-take-all, zero-sum game of flag football.
  — Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2025
• Success becomes a zero-sum game.
  — Essence, 18 Oct. 2025
• Belief becomes a zero-sum game.
  — Daryl Van Tongeren, Fortune, 12 June 2026
• Belief becomes a zero-sum game.
  — Daryl Van Tongeren, The Conversation, 10 June 2026
• One is a zero-sum game; the other offers the chance for both parties to prosper.
  — Sarah Keohane Williamson, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
• This is the opposite of zero-sum thinking.
  — Big Think, 7 May 2026
• Cinderella with one vile stepsister would be locked in a zero-sum game.
  — Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
• There is a tendency to see war as a zero-sum game, with one side winning and one side losing.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2026
• In an extremely zero-sum economy, that might be the end state.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
• This creates a zero-sum game where efficiency is a threat.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• The idea that the economy is rigged and zero-sum is leading to a rise in populism in both parties.
  — Allison Schrager, Twin Cities, 30 Nov. 2025
• That’s surrender — to the idea that this is a zero-sum war where one side must be erased for the other to survive.
  — Hen Mazzig, Sun Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2025
• That zero-sum trade off is particularly acute in places where few new homes are being built.
  — Calmatters, Orange County Register, 7 Mar. 2024
• But this isn’t a zero-sum game; renaming something is not an attack on anyone.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 June 2024
• In the zero-sum world of the Stanley Cup playoffs, there is no in between.
  — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 16 May 2025
• For his own reasons, Netanyahu has chosen to present the hostage dilemma as a zero-sum game.
  — Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2025
• That’s because under a cap, player earnings become a zero-sum game.
  — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 25 June 2026
• But when the election wasn't a zero-sum game, most of us took quite different paths that were much more voter-friendly.
  — Andrew Yang, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
• The zero-sum game of it all seems to be a part of the music industry where there’s this rapaciousness to it.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2024
• People who want to move, and can’t, grow more cynical, more pessimistic, more inclined to see the world as zero-sum.
  — Rachel Cohen, Vox, 18 Feb. 2025