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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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‘There is zero transparency’: My friend’s sister controls their mother’s estate.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
On a scale ranging from zero to eight, the average nightmare burden dropped by 3.7 points among participants taking Dronabinol.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Previously, this accounted for how companies created social value through measures such as equality and diversity, net zero and the post-Covid recovery.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
It’s that today’s audiences have zero stomach for happy endings about horrible wrongs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Before my life went from zero to crap in a week.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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
Thomas Broughton’s vivid text zeroes in on the last days of the hero Hercules, who returns victorious from war with a string of captives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 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
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
“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
Kepler, at least, wasn’t afraid of a glaring problem: as Δx goes to zero, the sum becomes equivalent to adding an infinite number of zeros together—a result that makes no sense.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
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
A progress meter appeared on my display, showing that my hard drive was now being zeroed out and wiped clean.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
But public health officials finally appear to be zeroing in on what’s causing it.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 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
Spaeny: The great thing about this show is that it’s zeroing in on everyday impossibilities of life, the things that should be so simple, but drive us all up the wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
That’s why we’re zeroing in on a handful of stocks.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
Finn blinked at the boy in front of him, his eyes zeroing in on that famous Rude underbite.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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