- a variation of naught.
nought
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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
Jordan Cox is unbeaten on 22, alongside Jofra Archer on nought.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
History has taught you that pouring out your time, energy and emotions will similarly come to nought.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026
The visitors had lost two wickets for six runs and Root and Brook were both on nought, only for England's best two batters to combine.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
There was nought we could do but wait.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
A standard calculator only has room for seven noughts.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2015
Someone has drawn a noughts and crosses board in the dusty screen of an old video game, Ideal Twinline, and underneath, the words, "How about a nice game of chess?"
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2011
The other puts a nought in another of the squares, and so it goes on until either three noughts or three crosses are in a straight line in any direction.
From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
