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  1. Zero sum game

    "Zero sum game", as opposed to a "win-win situation", is used to suggest that if someone wins, someone else loses.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of zero sum game in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of zero sum game in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of zero sum game in a Sentence

  1. National Security Adviser Susan Rice:

    We reject reductive reasoning and lazy rhetoric that says conflict between the U.S. and China is inevitable even as we've been tough with China where we disagree, this isn't a zero sum game.

  2. Mandy Grunwald:

    The reaction in our party implies that it's a zero-sum game : We only talk about Donald Trump or we never talk about Donald Trump. We're in the' and' zone. People want to talk about the economy and what's happening in people's lives, and all kinds of stuff, but you just can't ignore this. It's that sense that you have to choose, it's one or the other : Because Terry McAuliffe didn't win, and Terry McAuliffe talked about Donald Trump, that's the end of it. That's nonsense.

  3. Huang Kunming:

    The Cold War thinking and zero sum game, this has stopped and hindered exchanges in cyberspace. Also, bully behavior in cyberspace has had a negative impact on mutual trust, by using national security as an excuse, some countries have attacked some countries and enterprises. This has increased the uncertainty, opposition and negativity in cyberspace.

  4. Charles Krauthammer:

    They have displaced the United States, and their entire foreign policy under Putin is to recover the glory and the territory and the influence of the old Soviet Union one piece at a time and it does that by taking away from the United States, it's a zero sum game.

  5. Chief Executive Fred Tomczyk:

    We continue to believe that commission price wars are a zero-sum game, different competitors may take different courses of action.


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