nought

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Very well, then, how do you account for the fact that this nought was added to the nine in the counterfoil on or after Tuesday COKESON.

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  • If you get nought, they don't want to see you sulking for three or four hours; you have got to go and sit on the balcony and front up. —  Top stories from Times Online
  • But perhaps Japanese student life was not for nought, and perhaps the experience will lead to his and his beloved's long-awaited salvation … —  Anime News Network
  • Yet the royal hall of Death you now bring to nought, and from Hades 'realm you raise the dead again. —  Sarx
  • And while the move came to nought, the 37-year-old said after a minor adjustment to the angle of his saddle, Sunday was the best he'd felt all week-long. —  VeloNews | The Journal of Competitive Cycling
  • He has done nought, and though he may become as bad as the others--he may not. —  In Kings' Byways
 

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/nɔt/
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