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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a zilch" is not correct in standard written English.
The term "zilch" is typically used informally to mean "nothing," and it is usually used without the article "a."
Example: "After searching for hours, I found zilch in the old files."
Alternatives: "nothing" or "nada."
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Not a zilch!" Each side had more than two hours to give its closing statements.
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"Piracy doesn't pay artists a penny nothing, zilch, zero.
Five million toiled an average of 7.7 hours a week for zilch.
Plug it in and but for a red light, zilch.
Something that ends in pizza is something that ends in a big zero, zilch, nothing.
Yet this is what Nancy Lublin, one of America's most successful non-profit leaders, proposes in a new book, "Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business".Ms Lublin dismisses the common charge that non-profits are inefficient.
Nancy Lublin, the site's C.E.O., just released a new book, "Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business," in which she suggests that for-profit companies can cultivate motivated employees much in the same way that not-for-profits do.
He stands in front of him and draws himself up to his full height to show how big he is compared to the other man, the image of brute force facing up to an asthmatic weakling, the storm meeting the dew, and it is wonderful to know you represent overpowering strength while the other is a repulsive, squirming zilch.
Or to put it another way, the value of its current 100% ownership of the bank is being valued at a big fat zilch.
McNamee figures that insurance applications made over the Internet generate 17% of his current business, up from zilch a couple of years ago.
"Piracy doesn't pay artists a penny – nothing, zilch, zero.
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