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Example Sentences
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The Boyle Heights warehouse, according to the call, amounted to about 1% of the company’s total global capacity so the long-term impact to the company’s bottomline was nil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The odds of this forecast coming true are close to nil; employment almost never collapses by that much, and never when output is skyrocketing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
I think the chances of that are basically nil, as the news cycle is already moving on.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
"I understand why the judge made the decision she made," she said, adding "I don't feel like we were warned enough about the possibility that our chances would be nil."
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
And the chances of it being in order at all times were nil, for I knew that, as with my father, the authorities would always find something wrong with my pass.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
