nil-nil

• “It's none of the usual explanations: lots of scoring being better than endless nil-nil draws—I've been to cricket matches in which 1,000 runs were scored and you could hardly call them riveting.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Football Is Better Than Soccer

• “At the break this is nil-nil, but perhaps the Coastal groove will jell into beauty if I give it long enough.”

  Pop World Cup 2010: Round of 16 Match 8 – Spain 1 Cote d’Ivoire 0 | FreakyTrigger

• “After Italy's stolid play won the 2006 Cup, defense and caution the stuff of nil-nil stalemates was in.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Fun, Creative Germany

• “Ninety minutes of running up and down the nicely mowed lawn with the final score of nil-nil!”

  The Huffington Post: Roger I. Abrams: World Cup Fever

• “Of course nil-nil is not an American foreign policy, or wasn't until we got a president with a suspiciously foreign name.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Modest Proposal for Improving a Dull Game

• “(Although this idea might find some support at IU lately.) "Nil-nil" is not a sports score, "nil-nil" is a foreign policy.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Modest Proposal for Improving a Dull Game

• “Also, add body slams, get rid of useless nil-nil ties and play on an extremely steep slope.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Modest Proposal for Improving a Dull Game

• “Three days into our World Cup sojourn, and the score is nil-nil in my battle with Steve Goff to become first to spot all of South Africa's Big Five, in person.”

  The Washington Post: Stalking the Big Five

• “Ascension came in the 117th minute of a 120-minute overtime game, til then a non-scoring, nil-nil slugfest, when Andres Iniesta, reputed the epitome of the good guy, received a bouncing ball and, with exquisite poise, found the proper angle from which to fire the notoriously unpredictable Jabulani where the Dutch goalkeeper wasn't.”

  The Huffington Post: Carla Seaquist: World Cup Final: Finally, the Good Guys Win

• “That is indeed priceless ... and I can see why a lot of people get annoyed with the ties, especially when they end up nil-nil!”

  Hulu Plus: Why in the world would anyone pay for this?

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