nullifier

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No amount of memories, mutual love or money owed should obscure the clarity of dire results: Twenty straight losses are the ultimate nullifier.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022

Calhoun directed the nullifier campaign, though he did not throw off all disguises until the summer of the following year.

From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Ogg, Frederic Austin

In the list one notes with interest the names of General Thomas Cadwalader of Philadelphia, salaried lobbyist for the United States Bank, and Senator Robert Y. Hayne, the future South Carolina nullifier.

From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Ogg, Frederic Austin

Saturn reported no evidence of the phenomena, because of the interfering rings and the lack of Mercia's nullifier.

From Raiders of the Universes by Wandrei, Donald A.

Thoreau, Henry D.: allusion, 22; a Crusoe, 72; "nullifier of civilization," 86; one-apartment house, 142, 143; The Dial, 159, 160; death, 228; Emerson's burial-place, 356; biography, 368; personality traceable, 389; woodcraft, 403.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell