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Frequently Asked Questions
- Four minus four is zero.
- The temperature is expected to drop below zero.
- If we don’t play, the chance of us winning is zero.
- The school had a zero tolerance policy on bullying.
- Please zero these columns by removing all the values.
Example Sentences
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But the expected revival is running into problems that will keep same-store sales growth for home-improvement retailers around zero this year for the group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Recently, I did my first standup routine in years containing zero fat jokes.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
However, so far this year there have been zero such sessions, he notes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
There were seven cases in 2025, and so far zero this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
At this point, zero out of the two are complete—and I don’t even have an excuse to fall back on.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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This design appears to be a win on two levels, says Gillingham, the Yale professor: It zeroes out direct use of water while also reducing the total amount of energy required for cooling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Users go to AI bots for everything from recipes to life and relationship advice, even forming one-sided platonic or romantic relationships with the ones and zeroes that make up this digital ether behind a screen.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
Instead, he zeroes in on their clashing worldviews.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
Coco Gauff dropped a set for the second match in a row before clawing her way into a third consecutive Australian Open quarter-final on Sunday as she zeroes in on a maiden Melbourne title.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
That’s a 7 with 27 zeroes after it, or 7 billion billion billion atoms.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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If you’re not, you’ve got to use money, which is hard to get, whereas you get shares by typing zeros into a spreadsheet.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
And these worlds aren’t even real, just ones and zeros merged to form a network of communication that sometimes feels like incoherent gibberish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Classical computers process information as ones or zeros in bits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
“We’ll just keep adding zeros to these dead cap players, and see how high they can go,” Leeds explained.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 2026
Yet despite the deep mystery of the infinite zeros, Galileo sensed their power.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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From Washington, D.C., to Rhode Island to Oregon, federal judges nominated by presidents from both parties, including Donald Trump, have zeroed in on what’s called “the presumption of regularity.”
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Narayan highlighted Ford’s improved margins, but also zeroed in on Ford’s EV losses.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Yet speculation has zeroed in on the potential noise of the coaster as being a problem for residents of the nearby of Toluca Lake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
As he zeroed in on BP’s expense ledger, he identified areas that many inside the company, and some on the board, said they saw as important to the corporate culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Noah didn’t even acknowledge I’d said anything but zeroed in on Stephanie.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
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But public health officials finally appear to be zeroing in on what’s causing it.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Spaeny: The great thing about this show is that it’s zeroing in on everyday impossibilities of life, the things that should be so simple, but drive us all up the wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
HoldCo Asset Management, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.–based activist hedge fund known for engaging in campaigns to improve underperforming banks, is zeroing in on two new targets after its most active year yet.
From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026
The Chinese tech giant is zeroing in on making AI a key engine of growth, continuing to upgrade its Qwen model series and integrating it into its core ecosystem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Edna says when she sees me zeroing in above her eyes.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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