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For one, previous Indian efforts to establish a semiconductor industry have come to naught.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

However, the less sincere that shift is, the greater the fallout when it turns out to be for naught.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

I learned from a successful mentor that you can get a lot of things right, but if you don’t get the major trend right, it’s for naught.

From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026

Some in the Iranian capital feared the ceasefire will come to naught, but others declared victory and most breathed a sigh of relief after weeks of bombardment.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

Only fifty seemed to have turned up, not the eighty Toregg promised Leathers, but Tormund was not called Tall-Talker for naught.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

But she said, if Morris Chestnut was the ideal black boyfriend of the ’90s and the naughts, aka urbane, upwardly mobile, suave, smooth, Lakeith is this generation’s black rom-com boyfriend, emotionally intelligent, creative, quirky, funny.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2019

Until the naughts, when I simply quit going.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2016

No. Right or wrong, the referee’s decision at the double naughts must stand.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2015

But no one, as far as I know, has ever called himself an “aughts guy”; said earnestly, “That’s so tens”; or suggested, “Let’s have a naughts movie night!”

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2013

"My gate looks as if I'd been playing naughts and crosses on my paper," sighed Linda.

From The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story by Angela Brazil