nullifier
Example Sentences
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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
Their first public display was the celebration of Washington's birthday; but the most intense nullifier could raise no objection to this.
From General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright
But four years after the death of the great nullifier, his disciples and followers dared to consummate a crime, the consequences of which he shrank from inviting.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
The great nullifier perceived at once the insuppressible nature of the Abolition movement and early predicted that the spirit then abroad in the North would not "die away of itself without a shock or convulsion."
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
