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Recent Examples of nothingnessBut that nothingness slowly but surely became one of the most popular sitcoms ever.—Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026 At roughly nine thousand three hundred feet above sea level, the thin subzero air assaulted my lungs immediately, and the reflective background and uninterrupted nothingness attracted my focus to hints of pastel colors.—Cree Lefavour, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026 Her personality has eroded into smooth, agreeable nothingness.—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 30 Dec. 2025 Jess Mai Walker and Joseph Ware’s artistic and geographic origins seem like a far cry from this distinctly American form of vast nothingness.—Billie Bugara, Pitchfork, 19 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nothingness
Perhaps most notably, in several areas along the Western Front during World War I, British and German troops spontaneously observed an unofficial truce to celebrate the Christmas holiday and bury their dead.
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Steve S. Medeiros,
The Conversation,
15 June 2026
The Navy helped turn one of the few places where its dead still rest in view of the living into a recreation stop.
The southern elephant seal pup mortality was estimated to be 76% across a population of 17,000 seal pups born on the islands, the program said.
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Kathleen Magramo,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
Women in rural areas face higher rates of maternal morbidity and mortality, particularly among low-income communities and Black and Indigenous women — disparities documented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.