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Recent Examples of nothingness
From there, the movie around her is soon reduced to a nothingness of its own making.
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Chase Hutchinson, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
Alexander Vilenkin, meanwhile, has suggested that the universe instead emerged spontaneously from a state of nothingness via a strange quantum mechanics phenomenon known as quantum tunneling.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Mike himself has been hollowed out into nothingness, his character chipped away into a hollow avatar for a sensitive, caring man dedicated to providing women pleasure.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
Events that used to lead to days or weeks of heated discourse now fade into nothingness almost instantaneously; nothing matters enough to break the internet anymore.
—Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2025
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Chase Hutchinson, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
Alexander Vilenkin, meanwhile, has suggested that the universe instead emerged spontaneously from a state of nothingness via a strange quantum mechanics phenomenon known as quantum tunneling.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Mike himself has been hollowed out into nothingness, his character chipped away into a hollow avatar for a sensitive, caring man dedicated to providing women pleasure.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
Events that used to lead to days or weeks of heated discourse now fade into nothingness almost instantaneously; nothing matters enough to break the internet anymore.
—Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nothingness
Noun
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Mosquitoes are a true scourge, responsible for up to one million human deaths per year.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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The eggs are linked to an ongoing Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak in seven states, in which 79 people have been sickened and at least 21 hospitalized, but no deaths have been reported, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
Noun
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As Joel talks to Ellie, a different solemn moment unfolds in Salt Lake City, where the young survivors of Joel’s Firefly massacre bury their dead and try to figure out what happened.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
14 Apr. 2025
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However, because the Romans cremated their dead for many years, archaeologists have not found many gladiator bodies.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Apr. 2025
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While the theme of mortality is threaded throughout the film, it is also balanced with hope, appreciation and more than a dab of realism.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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The Life of Chuck is, as might be expected from the Master of the Macabre, a story of human mortality presented as a strange, surrealist comedy … a kind of pop-culture version of Lars Von Trier’s 2011 end-of-the-world movie Melancholia.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
6 June 2025
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“Nothingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nothingness. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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