Example Sentences

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Judges across the country prove every day that the law is still the last, best guardrail against that sort of nihilist thinking.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

Whatever her chosen name and persona, our narrator remains a delightful original—part quirky, impetuous innocent, part optimistic nihilist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

He is a kind of nihilist who believes in domination and accumulating as much power as he possibly can.

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2025

He was described to me as an "evil nihilist" by Dr Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease doctor and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins University.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025

Nay, have we not had German clerk and Chinese aristocrat, German baron and Russian nihilist?

From An Ocean Tramp by McFee, William