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See “something will turn up” and “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

History has taught you that pouring out your time, energy and emotions will similarly come to nought.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026

Root said he did not feel like he needed to bat in Canberra, despite falling to Mitchell Starc for scores of nought and eight in Perth.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025

On nought not out at the end of the second day of the third Test against Pakistan at The Oval, Cook was convinced he was playing his last Test innings before being dropped.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025

His douceurs were nought but such as an artillery marshal might declaim.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

One complained that children had used the forms to play noughts and crosses.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2022

Working with just ones, noughts, and a saucerful of secrets, these ground-breaking artists stand front and centre of any modern corporate or commerical strategy.

From Forbes ● Jun. 30, 2015

Come the naughty noughts, bulging upper-body muscles were eventually co-opted by the Jersey Shore crowd whereupon they gradually lost much of their frisson.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2015

He said the first programs he intended to run on his mega processor were likely to be Tetris, noughts and crosses and 1970s evolutionary simulation Life by mathematician John Conway.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2015

A billion is a million millions, and is represented by a figure with twelve noughts behind it, so—1,000,000,000,000; and twenty-five such billions is the least distance within which any star can lie.

From The Children's Book of Stars by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton