Example Sentences

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He was leafing through a proof of the M.E.P.’s catalog, and asking himself if the invasion had nullified this summation of his life’s work.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022

Monday’s ruling was just the second time in Africa that a court had nullified a presidential election, after Kenya in 2017.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2020

She said the majority had nullified a “plain-vanilla rule of contract interpretation” that in California and other states requires an ambiguous agreement be read to favor the side that didn’t write it.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2019

Union lead negotiator John Holland insisted the board had nullified that calculation by announcing a change in the last day of school, so the strike continued.

From Washington Times • Dec. 21, 2016

My own juju, I said, had nullified his by pronouncing the accused innocent, and I was exceedingly anxious to test the relative truth of our soothsayers.

From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz