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Frequently Asked Questions
- Four minus four is zero.
- The temperature is expected to drop below zero.
- If we don’t play, the chance of us winning is zero.
- The school had a zero tolerance policy on bullying.
- Please zero these columns by removing all the values.
Example Sentences
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Instead, it arises entirely from quantum effects at temperatures close to absolute zero.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
While he has spent more than 28 years as a prosecutor, McKinney has zero experience handling civil litigation, but he doesn’t think that’s a problem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"There are malnourished children and there's zero health education and hygiene at home."
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Kpler finds Iranian flows near zero following the U.S. blockade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
I have zero doubt Drake’s space would make mine look like I’d gotten a visit from the organizer lady on this TV show about “the bliss of living tidy.”
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
This design appears to be a win on two levels, says Gillingham, the Yale professor: It zeroes out direct use of water while also reducing the total amount of energy required for cooling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Users go to AI bots for everything from recipes to life and relationship advice, even forming one-sided platonic or romantic relationships with the ones and zeroes that make up this digital ether behind a screen.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
The concept of “Barista FIRE,” for instance, zeroes in on saving enough money to live off investments for most expenses, then taking a part-time job to cover the remaining costs.
From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026
Conventional computers operate using bits -- streams of electrical or optical pulses that represent ones or zeroes.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025
“That’s a one with one hundred zeroes after it.”
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
“They emphasized that we wanted zeros in our reports,” Peggy Dixon wrote in a 97-page affidavit about her work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Now Wall Street zeros in on rate hike in September.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
If you’re not, you’ve got to use money, which is hard to get, whereas you get shares by typing zeros into a spreadsheet.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
You could take several zeros off the $200 million Steyer spent on his campaign and it would still be more than most of us make in a lifetime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
Newton disliked infinitesimals, the little os in his fluxion equations that sometimes acted like zeros and sometimes like nonzero numbers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
They zeroed in on Kao’s relationship with Collins.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
When his adult son who happened to be working at Tatte stopped by with a question, Shaich zeroed in on a shadow of stubble he spotted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
From Washington, D.C., to Rhode Island to Oregon, federal judges nominated by presidents from both parties, including Donald Trump, have zeroed in on what’s called “the presumption of regularity.”
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Narayan highlighted Ford’s improved margins, but also zeroed in on Ford’s EV losses.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
He zeroed in on my scalp and pinched a group of hairs at the root, sliding mysterious debris to the end and setting off a ripple of chills from my shoulders to my face.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
These strange laws of existence provide the framework for Ullom’s excellent social observations, zeroing in on each character’s relationship to this new world and comparing it to the old one.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
But public health officials finally appear to be zeroing in on what’s causing it.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Auditors reviewed $317,000 Boaz spent from 2022 to late 2024, zeroing in on about $18,000, much of it spent at restaurants and grocery stores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Spaeny: The great thing about this show is that it’s zeroing in on everyday impossibilities of life, the things that should be so simple, but drive us all up the wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
The psychologist Nalini Ambady listened to Levinson’s tapes, zeroing in on the conversations that had been recorded between just surgeons and their patients.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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