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naught

adjective as in zero

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The prayers are not for naught, Dolly Parton told fans on Wednesday.

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Otherwise, all of the dinosaur danger is for naught.

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But it was all for naught: On Thursday, Tamaulipas prosecutors confirmed that authorities had discovered the bodies of the five at an unspecified site in Reynosa.

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All that brainpower would have been for naught, however, save for the beneficence of Uncle Sam.

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He was naught to know that the Palisades and Eaton fires would go on to burn more than double the urban acreage that Woolsey had.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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