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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

She crashed through or over the covers whenever New Zealand offered a hint of width and capitalised on a dropped catch on nought and a missed stumping on 13.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

Jordan Cox is unbeaten on 22, alongside Jofra Archer on nought.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

History has taught you that pouring out your time, energy and emotions will similarly come to nought.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026

The structures along the river were now nought but torrents of fire, liquid and rushing; whatever features as remained—lintels, doorframes, and roof-trees—were sketched with dark charcoal smudges in the midst of red activity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Earlier, she took on Dame Kelly at a game of bean-bag noughts and crosses.

From BBC ● May 16, 2023

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

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

Look, and you will see that, counting the noughts in, the letters go in groups of eight, with a semi-colon at the end of each group.

From The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Arthur Morrison