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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"Broad Peak, I ask for nothing but safe passage up and back down. I take zero mountains for granted," he wrote.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
There were zero security incidents during the games, Wiggins said, and June ridership was over 26 million total, up 2.4 million from last June.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
‘I have zero regrets’: I’m 84 and estranged from my two adult sons.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Now 39 with two children under five, Reiff has zero desire to herd his family onto a megaship packed with water rides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
I zero in on the alphabetical order, moving to the next aisle.
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
The little superscript number signifies the number of zeroes following the larger principal number.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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
It is an investment with "a whole bunch of zeros behind the dollars", he says - and one pharmaceutical companies so far have not seen as being profitable.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
“We’ll just keep adding zeros to these dead cap players, and see how high they can go,” Leeds explained.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 2026
This technique converts image or texture data into binary ones and zeros and embeds that information directly into the material.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2026
“You know,” Ma begins, “it’s this same carelessness that gets you zeros on your assignments. Even if you turn them in late, you can still get at least half credit.”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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
Narayan highlighted Ford’s improved margins, but also zeroed in on Ford’s EV losses.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Regulators zeroed in on three potential areas of concern.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
In an exclusive interview with BBC Sport, Di Maria says Van Gaal zeroed in on negatives in his game, never the positives, which led him to "hate" being at Old Trafford.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
The man with the shaved head kept doing the head pivot, like a surveillance camera, and then suddenly he jerked to the left and zeroed right in on me.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
But public health officials finally appear to be zeroing in on what’s causing it.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 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
“This could create serious consequences, including a potential zeroing out of the state’s support for critical emission reduction programs,” said Phillip Fine, executive officer at the Bay Area Air District.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
HoldCo Asset Management, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.–based activist hedge fund known for engaging in campaigns to improve underperforming banks, is zeroing in on two new targets after its most active year yet.
From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026
As Ignatius was considering the delight which the little baseball game afforded humanity, the two sad and covetous eyes moved toward him through the crowd like torpedoes zeroing in on a great woolly tanker.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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