nihil
Example Sentences
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De mortuis nihil nisi bonum is a lovely motto.
From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2018
He once wrote, “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.”
From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2016
This emergence of subjective feelings from physical stuff appears inconceivable and is at odds with a basic precept of physical thinking, the Ur-conservation law—ex nihilo nihil fit.
From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2014
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum: Of the dead say nothing unless it is kind.
From Slate • Aug. 2, 2012
Marc. iv, 17, nihil impudentius si ille nos sibi filio faciet qui nobis filios facere non permisit aufercndo conubium.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)
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