naught

Otherwise, all of the dinosaur danger is for naught.

But it was all for naught: On Thursday, Tamaulipas prosecutors confirmed that authorities had discovered the bodies of the five at an unspecified site in Reynosa.

All that brainpower would have been for naught, however, save for the beneficence of Uncle Sam.

He was naught to know that the Palisades and Eaton fires would go on to burn more than double the urban acreage that Woolsey had.

Still, the fact remains that within a generation, the beacon of the system that drew my husband’s family and thousands of other families like them to California is naught but a dream for most.