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How to use the word naught in a Sentence?

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If people don't feel safe, literally nothing else matters. We've made tremendous progress, our economy is opening up, we did a vaccine distribution and other Covid related mitigations, all of that is for naught if people can't walk down the street. – Lori Lightfoot	Found on CNN 2 years ago
All you have to do to get rid of an epidemic is to have The R-naught factor be less than one. As soon as it's less than one -- each person gives it to less than one other person -- it dies off, the problem with The R-naught factor is, it's very nice to describe the average. However, in medicine, as in many things, if you find an average person let me know ; I want to go meet them. – Rob Murphy	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If we are not able to recoup some of these losses during this period, it's all for naught. – Howard Flax	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
There's too much panic around defaults, whenever a company defaults, people would assume the (bond) value would be wiped out to naught. But that's not the case. – Zhou Li	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I'm so sorry. I've devoted the last 15 years to taking care of these boys and really to shaping their morals. Now it's all for naught. – Beauton Gilbow	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Do naught to others which, if done to thee, would cause thee pain: this is the sum of duty.* – Mahabharata	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost. – Madame Swetchine	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. – George Santiano	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. – Emma Goldman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago

If people don't feel safe, literally nothing else matters. We've made tremendous progress, our economy is opening up, we did a vaccine distribution and other Covid related mitigations, all of that is for naught if people can't walk down the street.

– Lori Lightfoot

Found on CNN
2 years ago

All you have to do to get rid of an epidemic is to have The R-naught factor be less than one. As soon as it's less than one -- each person gives it to less than one other person -- it dies off, the problem with The R-naught factor is, it's very nice to describe the average. However, in medicine, as in many things, if you find an average person let me know ; I want to go meet them.

– Rob Murphy

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If we are not able to recoup some of these losses during this period, it's all for naught.

– Howard Flax

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

There's too much panic around defaults, whenever a company defaults, people would assume the (bond) value would be wiped out to naught. But that's not the case.

– Zhou Li

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I'm so sorry. I've devoted the last 15 years to taking care of these boys and really to shaping their morals. Now it's all for naught.

– Beauton Gilbow

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Do naught to others which, if done to thee, would cause thee pain: this is the sum of duty.*

– Mahabharata

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

added by anonymous
13 years ago

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

– Madame Swetchine

added by anonymous
13 years ago

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

– George Santiano

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

– Emma Goldman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

– William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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