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• n  a quantity of no importance
  reduced to nil all the work we had done

• Its wit is almost nil, but its wisecracks are raw as a cannibal sandwich, suggestive as a red light burning in the hall.
• The name Old Gold then belonged to a Lorillard brand of smoking tobacco whose sales were almost nil.
• The total number of phone calls received was nil.

• nothing
• nix
• nada
• null
• aught
• cipher
• cypher
• goose egg
• naught
• zero
• zilch
• zip
• zippo

News & Articles

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• RUBBER-Tokyo futures prices after evening session
  Following are prices for Tokyo rubber futures at the end of the Tokyo market's evening session on June 11. Contract Day Volume Evening Volume * Jun 243.1 64 Nil Nil * Jul 245.8 36 240.8 11 * Aug 246.3 ...
  June 11, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance
• NBA Finals 2013: Adjustments from Game 1 Each Team Must Make to Win Series
  With Game 1 of the NBA Finals in the books, the Miami Heat lost home court advantage, and are on the pressure cooker once again headed into Game 2. Heat fans were enjoying a series being nil-nil, until the San Antonio Spurs stole the fourth quarter, fueled by a masterful performance by Tony Parker and a time machine performance by Tim Duncan. ESPN's SportsCenter Twitter account details their ...
  June 7, 2013 - Bleacher Report
• Slo-Mo Lightning Footage Is Why High Speed Cameras Were Invented
  The odds of capturing a lightning bolt on a high-speed camera in the wild are probably pretty similar to getting hit yourself—slim to nil. So to vastly improve their chances, the slo-mo team at BBC Earth Productions visited the Morgan-Botti Lightning Lab in England where the electrifying bolts are produced every day. Read more...        
  June 7, 2013 - Gizmodo

Quotes

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• Greg Norman in ESPN
  My expectations were almost nil coming in, to tell you the truth,said Norman. "I hadn't played a lot of golf. I was trying to work on my game as much as I could. Obviously we had a lot of preparation getting ready for the wedding."
• Sven-Goran Eriksson in Washington Post
  It shouldn't have been allowed,Eriksson said. "They got a goal free. That's a 2-nil goal - that changed everything. It's even more difficult if he's allowed to use his hands. Of course it's a hand ball. It's not once, it's twice."
• Jose Serra in BBC News
  Sao Paulo State Governor Jose Serra said: "I was told that the temperature inside the plane was 1,000C [1,830F], so the chances of there being any survivors are practically nil."