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Recent Examples of nothingness
Then, after 33 billion years of existence, the universe will squash itself into nothingness.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 Oct. 2025
True nothingness, while wonderful in theory, does not exist.
—Steven Searcy, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Sep. 2025
The dichotomy in Las Casas’s narration is now birth and death, being and nothingness: Las Casas baptized the man and performed last rites in the same breath.
—Greg Grandin
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Not heated arguments or screaming matches — which still involve a degree of communication — but rather consuming, destructive nothingness.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 Oct. 2025
True nothingness, while wonderful in theory, does not exist.
—Steven Searcy, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Sep. 2025
The dichotomy in Las Casas’s narration is now birth and death, being and nothingness: Las Casas baptized the man and performed last rites in the same breath.
—Greg Grandin
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Not heated arguments or screaming matches — which still involve a degree of communication — but rather consuming, destructive nothingness.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for nothingness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nothingness
Noun
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The Little Rock man who, police say, crashed while fleeing from an Arkansas State Police trooper last week now faces first-degree murder counts in the death of two teenage passengers, authorities said Wednesday.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Nov. 2025
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In short, at the heart within the kernel of concern for memory is a concern for death.—
Diana Arterian,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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And yet Maram wanted to be there—to stand with her family members in those first fragile moments of quiet, to celebrate our survival and mourn our dead.—
Mosab Abu Toha,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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Four people were arrested in Conway on Tuesday in relation to a Saturday shooting that left a 17-year-old dead, a news release from Conway police says.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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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According to Borne, their outing aspired to highlight ongoing research into why babies are born prematurely, as premature birth is the leading cause of childhood mortality worldwide, and to accelerate advancements for safer pregnancies and healthier births.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
11 Nov. 2025
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Three years after a 2004 earthquake in Japan, mortality from heart attacks was found to be fourteen per cent higher than pre-quake.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Nothingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nothingness. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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