as in nothingness
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Noun
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From there, the movie around her is soon reduced to a nothingness of its own making.—
Chase Hutchinson,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2025 -
If Derek Jeter invented the strategy of preemptive blandness, a verbal jiu-jitsu move that cloaks every utterance in a gauze of impenetrable nothingness, Tom Brady has earned a Vantablack® belt in the discipline.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Something happened online, but the details are fuzzy because all the context has been flattened into nonexistence.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
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The body simply won’t lose consciousness, and losing it is something that cannot be willed into existence, or, rather, into nonexistence.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Conor’s passionately absorbing, poignantly observed self-refraction from individuality into idiosyncrasy lends his very reality an air of unreality.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2025
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The unreality of the present moment should be a boon for artists and all who deal in the imagination.—
Dean Kissick,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Dec. 2024
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“Nonbeing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonbeing. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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