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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
Thus, with those over the age of 33 consigned to ashy nothingness, and everyone else expecting to only live a few more years, the world of Clair Obscur is almost unbearably strange and sad, suffused with a genuinely desolate eeriness.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 3 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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Ben Dowsett, Wired News, 15 Dec. 2025
Thus, with those over the age of 33 consigned to ashy nothingness, and everyone else expecting to only live a few more years, the world of Clair Obscur is almost unbearably strange and sad, suffused with a genuinely desolate eeriness.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 3 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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Lopez Lyman speaks about the January 7 death of Renee Nicole Good, a white woman and legal observer who was shot and killed by an ICE officer, and compares the current situation to the time following police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd in 2020.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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The Dodgers’ latest mega-millions acquisition that set off another round of dire forecasts of the death of competitive balance was made official on Wednesday with Kyle Tucker introduced at Dodger Stadium.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
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Citizens commune not just with deceased relatives but with the undifferentiated mass of anonymous dead.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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
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The vast, indifferent Moroccan desert acts as a major character, stripping the human characters bare and forcing a primal confrontation with mortality, loss, and the unconstrained forces of nature.—
Robert Lang,
Deadline,
7 Jan. 2026
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Pettini said since 2020, the program has reduced mortality in trauma, shootings, and stabbings, as well as medical cases such as gastrointestinal bleeds and postpartum hemorrhage.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
7 Jan. 2026
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