nonentities

Example Sentences

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The velocity at which running backs go from the country’s biggest athletic stars to nonentities can be jarring.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021

Autocratic leaders, as Joachim Fest writes, are often "demonic nonentities."

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2021

Virtually all of these supposed terrorists turned out to be nonentities — “ghost leads,” as they were called.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2021

He was a nonentity even among the nonentities who remained after Yeltsin’s perpetual clearing-out of his cabinets.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2017

Appearances are judged as realities, and realities as nonentities.

From Talkers With Illustrations by Bate, John