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nils

noun

plural of nil

as in zeros

the numerical symbol 0 or the absence of number or quantity represented by it the difference in the audio performance of those two CD players is nil

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Those sizes vary from size four all the way down to zero, but even the zeros weren’t small enough.

— Marti Noxon, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026
Each number is expressed with three additional zeroes, yet going from a million to a billion requires adding 999 million.

— Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2026

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That can include robotic arm at the stalls, or a single robot arm on a rail over the stalls that zips back and forth handling the plug.

— Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Wood was asked about a golf outing where a friend’s father showed up in a traditional dress code, only to find the rest of the group in quarter-zips and in vests from a brand that shall go unnamed but is synonymous with New York’s Wall Street.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026

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There’s that vibrancy and, on the other side of the ledger, dead boys, ciphers, unfinished or unfinishable quests.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Consider a dashboard that shows applications, including keys and libraries; network traffic protocols and ciphers; hardware, such as HSMs and TPMs; and third-party dependencies, including cryptographic or software bills of materials.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

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