nought
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Flintoff has made scores of 33 not out, 41 not out, 34 and 61 not out around dismissals for nought and one in his six previous matches.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
See “something will turn up” and “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
After 10 balls on nought he began the counter, often advancing down the pitch.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
History has taught you that pouring out your time, energy and emotions will similarly come to nought.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026
Still no woodman’s hut appeared and there was nought but forest trees and brush on every hand.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
Working with just ones, noughts, and a saucerful of secrets, these ground-breaking artists stand front and centre of any modern corporate or commerical strategy.
From Forbes ● Jun. 30, 2015
Come the naughty noughts, bulging upper-body muscles were eventually co-opted by the Jersey Shore crowd whereupon they gradually lost much of their frisson.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2015
He said the first programs he intended to run on his mega processor were likely to be Tetris, noughts and crosses and 1970s evolutionary simulation Life by mathematician John Conway.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2015
The chances of there being no gay footballer among those is 1 in 10 to the power of 21, which is one and 21 noughts.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2012
For I reckon all his Parliamentary supporters as noughts, to which a value is given by the figure 1 at their head.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley
