nullity

Example Sentences

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In death, the law renders him a legal nullity.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2025

In the process of conversion, however, she’s reduced to a nullity with a grating personal manner.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2024

But although what she could do is say, "OK, well if you said that me dropping the charges were a nullity, I'm just going to drop them again."

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2023

A city that could imagine its own improbable existence into reality could just as easily relegate this now-inconvenient natural feature into a nullity or a comedian’s gag.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2022

The agreeable nullity of Leon’s life was a polished artifact, its ease deceptive, its limitations achieved by invisible hard work and the accidents of character, none of which she could hope to rival.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan