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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Tim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said carriers backed the government's target of net zero by 2050 but added that the transition "has to be affordable".
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Although such total goose eggs are rare, an inverse 3X fund that sought to triple the opposite of the daily return of Moderna stock went to zero last month on the London Stock Exchange.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz, which moved 20 million barrels of oil a day before the war, saw zero commodity vessels transit on Sunday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
"Ukraine is one of the cradles of world winemaking," Klimov said, even though during the Soviet era factories churned out "wine of almost zero quality".
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The rumble starts in my gut and builds, revving from zero to full-rage race-car fast at the casual mention of my girl’s impending death.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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
Each double helix contains vast arrays of chemical subunits that function like the zeroes and ones in a computer program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Instead, he zeroes in on their clashing worldviews.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
The concept of “Barista FIRE,” for instance, zeroes in on saving enough money to live off investments for most expenses, then taking a part-time job to cover the remaining costs.
From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026
He zeroes straight in on our joined hands.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
The Stanford University coders behind the search engine, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, had initially called their project Backrub before renaming it Google—a play on googol, meaning one followed by 100 zeros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 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
Every operation -- such as applying a quantum gate -- influences more than 2 quadrillion complex numerical values, a "2" with 15 zeros.
From Science Daily ● May 11, 2026
They included all the numbers from one to nine, and even an assortment of zeros.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
Those loans passed through entities controlled by four businesses—ABS Capital, Amistad Financial, Bradford Allen and Hudson Trading—which federal prosecutors have zeroed in on, the Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
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
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
Regulators zeroed in on three potential areas of concern.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Idiptu smacked his lips as he zeroed in on Daoud.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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
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
The park had opened in 2001 and had struggled in its early years to pull in crowds, with audiences zeroing in on a lack of Disneyland-style attractions and an absence of grandly designed vistas.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
Mr. McDowell let out a noisy breath before zeroing his dark eyes on Benji and then Felix.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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