nothings

Example Sentences

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Witch hunts and conspiracy theories had a long history, he said, going back to 17th-century Salem and the 19th-century Know Nothings.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025

Nothings in particular are a somewhat more diverse subgroup, with a third of them identifying as Black, Hispanic, Asian, multiracial or with another racial or ethnic group other than white.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, Lincoln worked to undermine the Know Nothings, break up their party and bring some of its former Whig adherents to his new cause.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2020

Even before Hicks‘ election, the Know Nothings had control in Maryland with a mayor of the party elected in 1856, said historian Tracy Matthew Melton, author of “The Violent Career of Baltimore’s Plug Uglies, 1854-1860.”

From Washington Times • Jul. 21, 2019

Wilson Carbod, the center for the Culver Creek Nothings, had hemorrhoids, or at least he kept hemorrhoidal cream secreted away in the bottom drawer of his desk.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green