zero
Frequently Asked Questions
- Four minus four is zero.
- The temperature is expected to drop below zero.
- If we don’t play, the chance of us winning is zero.
- The school had a zero tolerance policy on bullying.
- Please zero these columns by removing all the values.
Example Sentences
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The fed-funds rate went from near zero to 5.5% in 2022 and 2023, and the economy stayed resilient.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
"If more officers are found, they will also be punished. We have zero tolerance against such practice."
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
It’s clear that Raising Cane’s leadership is aware of these advantages, as it has zero intentions of going public in the near future.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
“Too many of our students have zero concept of the dollar and exactly what it takes to budget, save, and support a household,” Outsen said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Suddenly I feel like I’m in zero gravity, untethered from my surroundings.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Users go to AI bots for everything from recipes to life and relationship advice, even forming one-sided platonic or romantic relationships with the ones and zeroes that make up this digital ether behind a screen.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
Ten duotrigintillion—1 followed by 100 zeroes, or 10100—is equal to one googol.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Conventional computers operate using bits -- streams of electrical or optical pulses that represent ones or zeroes.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025
More cuts are expected as the company zeroes in on “finding additional places we can remove layers, increase ownership, and realize efficiency gains,” Galetti added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
According to Rees, the number of light-years to the edge of this larger, unseen universe would be written not "with ten zeroes, not even with a hundred, but with millions."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
For decades, mathematicians have tried to prove the Riemann hypothesis, which says that 100% of the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function fall on a single vertical line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Now Wall Street zeros in on rate hike in September.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
If you’re not, you’ve got to use money, which is hard to get, whereas you get shares by typing zeros into a spreadsheet.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
In conventional computing, information is represented by zeros and ones.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
I take off the zeros and see fifteen over fifty.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
From Washington, D.C., to Rhode Island to Oregon, federal judges nominated by presidents from both parties, including Donald Trump, have zeroed in on what’s called “the presumption of regularity.”
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Yet speculation has zeroed in on the potential noise of the coaster as being a problem for residents of the nearby of Toluca Lake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Investors zeroed in on United’s potentially fatter jet-fuel bill — the airline said it expects nearly $6 billion in additional fuel expenses for the year, based on crude prices as of Tuesday.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
As he zeroed in on BP’s expense ledger, he identified areas that many inside the company, and some on the board, said they saw as important to the corporate culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
My eyes fluttered open and zeroed in on the glowing green digits of my alarm clock.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
These strange laws of existence provide the framework for Ullom’s excellent social observations, zeroing in on each character’s relationship to this new world and comparing it to the old one.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
But public health officials finally appear to be zeroing in on what’s causing it.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Cyberscammers are zeroing in on the heightened emotions people are feeling surrounding the World Cup, said Sgt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Auditors reviewed $317,000 Boaz spent from 2022 to late 2024, zeroing in on about $18,000, much of it spent at restaurants and grocery stores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
And then she looks me over from head to toe before zeroing in on it.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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