zero
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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And finally, they react to the Japanese prime minister’s recent claim of sleeping zero to three hours a night.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026
Back in May, traders in the futures market were acting as if the chance of a quarter point hike was close to zero.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Fifty years later, those stakeholders have “absolutely zero consensus on whether theater should exist as a nonprofit performing arts field or whether we should exist at all,” Eustis said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
In cabinet, he served as home secretary, defence secretary, transport secretary, business secretary, energy secretary and net zero secretary.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
That’s way more than I have, seeing as I currently have zero dollars.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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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
The proposal zeroes in on the fact that many billionaires’ wealth is largely tied up in noncash investments, such as stock, bonds, property or art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 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 7 with 27 zeroes after it, or 7 billion billion billion atoms.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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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
It is an investment with "a whole bunch of zeros behind the dollars", he says - and one pharmaceutical companies so far have not seen as being profitable.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
Those atoms serve as the core components of a quantum computer because they store qubits, which are the quantum equivalent of the zeros and ones used in traditional computing.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
But I don’t think zeros and ones are going to entirely ruin our lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
Unfortunately, the zeros of black holes—singularities—look like unlikely candidates in the short term.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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It’s all zeroed out because everything is complimentary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Investors zeroed in on United’s potentially fatter jet-fuel bill — the airline said it expects nearly $6 billion in additional fuel expenses for the year, based on crude prices as of Tuesday.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Regulators zeroed in on three potential areas of concern.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
In an exclusive interview with BBC Sport, Di Maria says Van Gaal zeroed in on negatives in his game, never the positives, which led him to "hate" being at Old Trafford.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
As usual, my eyes zeroed in on the pictures.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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But public health officials finally appear to be zeroing in on what’s causing it.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Raman spent her time crisscrossing the city, going to dozens of events and zeroing in on renters and younger voters — groups she viewed as her base.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
That’s why we’re zeroing in on a handful of stocks.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
The Chinese tech giant is zeroing in on making AI a key engine of growth, continuing to upgrade its Qwen model series and integrating it into its core ecosystem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Edna says when she sees me zeroing in above her eyes.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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