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Recent Examples of nothingness
Jess Mai Walker and Joseph Ware’s artistic and geographic origins seem like a far cry from this distinctly American form of vast nothingness.
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Billie Bugara, Pitchfork, 19 Dec. 2025
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.
—Ben Dowsett, Wired News, 15 Dec. 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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Billie Bugara, Pitchfork, 19 Dec. 2025
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.
—Ben Dowsett, Wired News, 15 Dec. 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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MacEgan family speaks in court Before Abril was formally sentenced, the court allowed the MacEgan family to speak about the impact of these crimes and the family patriarch’s death.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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In Dallas-Fort Worth, there were 104,378 births and 53,559 deaths, which means 50,819 of the area’s new residents were a result of natural population change.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 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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Advocates in Texas have pushed for more through mortality reviews without success.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
19 Mar. 2026
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An unusual mortality event between 2019 and 2023 led to over a 50% population decline since 2016 that scientists believe is exacerbated by changing Arctic conditions, the center said.—
Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Nothingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nothingness. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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