as in ciphers
a person of no importance or influence
tired of feeling like a nobody, she decided to launch her own business
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Recent Examples of nobodies
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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Daniel Alarcón,
New Yorker,
4 June 2026
Seattle’s John Schneider and New England’s Eliot Wolf rose up from young nobodies to graduate from Green Bay Packers University, too.
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Dave Hyde,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2026
Where else could award winning writers pop off about nothing at all, and nobodies could rattle the ivory towers?
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Nov. 2025
Professional athletes, however, aren’t nobodies.
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Joe Kozlowski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
More importantly, the narrative explores both sides of the conflict from the POV of grunts and 'nobodies' trying to navigate the post-Civil War state of the galaxy before the fighting stops.
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Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
4 Aug. 2025
Daniel Alarcón,
New Yorker,
4 June 2026
Seattle’s John Schneider and New England’s Eliot Wolf rose up from young nobodies to graduate from Green Bay Packers University, too.
—
Dave Hyde,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2026
Where else could award winning writers pop off about nothing at all, and nobodies could rattle the ivory towers?
—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Nov. 2025
Professional athletes, however, aren’t nobodies.
—
Joe Kozlowski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
More importantly, the narrative explores both sides of the conflict from the POV of grunts and 'nobodies' trying to navigate the post-Civil War state of the galaxy before the fighting stops.
—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nobodies
Noun
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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.
Noun
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Jupiter, by comparison, is as much as 35 times denser than these two lightweights.
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The card will also feature several other San Diego-area boxers, including super lightweights Daniel Morales (8-0, 5 KOs) and Angel Juan Estrada (12-1-1, 9 KOs).
Noun
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Brown dwarfs are weird objects that have masses that are intermediate between those of giant planets and small stars.
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Writer Steve Phillips’ investments in the race dwarfs spending by any other single donor.
Noun
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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.
Noun
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All Dickens heroes are complete nonentities who know 217 wacky people.
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“Nobodies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nobodies. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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