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Recent Examples of nothingness
But there aren’t always railings, and when those are absent, we’re kept on the virtual path only by being able to see the edges of it, beyond which lies just black nothingness.
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Ben Dowsett, Wired News, 15 Dec. 2025
All humans have the same value—nothingness is equal to itself.
—Literary Hub, 11 Nov. 2025
This would not have been a serious consideration midway through Newcastle’s 2-0 win against struggling, flailing Nottingham Forest — the nothingness of half-time was like a blessed relief — but a stodgy, slow-burning afternoon concluded with Howe’s team comfortable and edging towards dominance.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
The meme seemed to perfectly capture the dynamic on-screen too, the show’s principals burning the avatars of meaning in a pot of hot-water nothingness.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Ben Dowsett, Wired News, 15 Dec. 2025
All humans have the same value—nothingness is equal to itself.
—Literary Hub, 11 Nov. 2025
This would not have been a serious consideration midway through Newcastle’s 2-0 win against struggling, flailing Nottingham Forest — the nothingness of half-time was like a blessed relief — but a stodgy, slow-burning afternoon concluded with Howe’s team comfortable and edging towards dominance.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
The meme seemed to perfectly capture the dynamic on-screen too, the show’s principals burning the avatars of meaning in a pot of hot-water nothingness.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nothingness
Noun
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The Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office later ruled her death a suicide.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Mar. 2026
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The case marks the first time Google has been sued over a death linked to its flagship artificial intelligence tool.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Officers met with medics at the scene who declared an adult female dead.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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But fear of the difficult dead neither originated in nor has been confined to the nineteenth-century European re-imaginings of Vlad the Impaler.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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There is, in the end, a deadness to its clichés about writers and their subjects.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
6 Dec. 2025
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But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Take the show’s unflinching portrayal of Black maternal mortality, one of America’s most shameful healthcare crises.—
Robert Raben,
Fortune,
26 Feb. 2026
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In Colorado, unintentional overdose and suicide have been the top two causes of maternal mortality each year since 2016.—
Kaylin Klie,
The Conversation,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Nothingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nothingness. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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