The phrase "a blank zero" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you want to emphasize emptiness or lack of value, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "In the final report, the budget section was just a blank zero, indicating no funds were allocated."
Alternatives: "an empty zero" or "a null value".
I sat opposite his dour spin doctor, the former Times journo Tom Baldwin, and jotted down a few thoughts on Ed's speech in my programme, but when I got home, I found it had been switched for a blank one.
Scully leaves The Smoking Man and gives the disc to The Lone Gunmen to analyze, but it turns out that he swapped the disc for a blank one.
The abacus should have 3 beads up in the farthest column left, four up in the next farthest, a blank column, one bead up, two beads up, another blank column, and at least three columns open to record the product.
Every extraction batch consisted of a method blank, six unknown samples and either a method control or unknown duplicate sample.
Benteke's form is symptomatic of a Villa side that have drawn a blank in five of their last six matches in all competitions, with the only game to buck that trend being a surprise 3-2 victoverover Manchester City at Villa Park.
For control two, the blank was supplemented with the specified proportion of A or T. Therefore, a blank and two controls were used for each reaction mixture and data obtained were used to calculate the amount of reducing sugars released from each reaction.
Some of them saw His Majesty, resplendent in his purple robes, but we drew a blank despite three hours' searching.
The President "wanted a blank check six months ago — and he wants a blank check today" and "won't take yes for an answer".
In a blank between two paragraphs of this arresting short novel, a lone man in a kayak is struck by lightning.
"There was a blank page, six days before [the show]," says Willner, who has been a music producer for Saturday Night Live since 1981.
