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nulling

verb

present participle of null
as in abolishing
to put an end to by formal action asked the state court to null the election results because of widespread voting irregularities

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nulling
  1. abolishing
  2. repealing
  3. canceling
  4. overturning
  5. voiding
  6. avoiding
  7. invalidating
Verb
  • Some advocate abolishing the agency, while others offer visions for how to rein it in and reform it.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Now, Xi remains in office after purging political rivals, abolishing presidential term limits and consolidating power.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of abolishing
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  • Abbott plans to work with the state legislature in 2027 on new laws for data centers, including repealing tax incentives.
    — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Fraga said repealing the resolution would not change federal immigration law or enforcement policy and argued that the city must follow existing federal and state laws while advocating for changes when officials disagree with them.
    — Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of repealing
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  • Companies will be required to provide a simple, accessible way to cancel a subscription through the same method used to sign up — making canceling as easy as signing up.
    — Lindsay Owens, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The Stanford researchers estimated that sellers can roughly double revenue because of consumer inertia, when people forget or put off canceling, and cancellation friction, when ending a subscription takes too much time or effort.
    — Barbara Booth, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of canceling
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  • As well as overturning the 2024 standards, the EPA is proposing to roll back its authority to regulate climate pollution from power plants.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Kavanaugh wrote an opinion in 2012 overturning the terrorism conviction of a driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of overturning
Verb
  • The sheriffs filed an emergency motion seeking to block New York state from voiding existing 287(g) agreements.
    — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Penalties could include fines, draft picks, or voiding Leonard's contract.
    — Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of voiding
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  • The growing range of treatment options marks a shift from seeking a cure to focusing on avoiding the disease entirely.
    — Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 29 Sep. 2026
  • These are the transition costs buried inside the transformation of our energy and food systems, of avoiding those future degrees of warming.
    — Stephanie Walton, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of avoiding
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  • After oral arguments in the spring, the three judges issued a complex decision affirming Carter’s finding of discrimination but overruling his order invalidating UCLA’s lease for its baseball stadium.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Alongside the launch, Anthropic is introducing beta features that allow developers to change available tools mid-conversation without invalidating prompt caches and automatically route flagged API requests to another model.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026
Definition of invalidating
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“Nulling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nulling. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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