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It means to completely eliminate or reduce something to nothing. It is often used to describe the complete failure or eradication of something. Example: The economic crisis reduced the company's profits to nil. In this sentence, "reduce to nil" is used to show that the economic crisis completely eliminated the company's profits. Another example: The team's chances of winning were reduced to nil after their star player got injured. Here, "reduce to nil" is used to convey that the team's chances of winning were completely eliminated due to the injury of their key player.
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Abbott's self-imposed quota of four dames or knights a year has been reduced to nil.
Whatever probability you assign to the existence of extraterrestrials, without an embassy the chances of making successful, beneficial contact reduces to nil.
In an urban environment, the risk of being harmed by the weather while cycling is reduced to nil with a basic scarf and jacket.
The Commission of Audit recommended abolishing the second income test for the payment, which simplified four tiers of payment to just a maximum rate and a part rate which reduced to nil with a 20c taper.
It's now reduced to nil.
A quarter of participants (24.8%) described severe headache, and approximately the same proportion (22.9%) reported that their daily activities were reduced to nil by HY (Table 2).
In addition, a loan of £885,000 due to former chairman Jamie Moffat was reduced to nil, while the removal of the Park Hotel from the club's portfolio may prove to be a sound piece of business.
As the scrutiny piled on, each attacker burying her deeper and deeper, her chances of a comeback were reduced to nil.
And hell, my sex drive had already been reduced to nil from a combination of heartache and technological impediments, so maybe, this would be the thing I needed to become a sexual dynamo.
CD44 mAb removed virtually all cells from the circulation, and rolling and sticking efficiencies were effectively reduced to nil.
Therefore, while the mitotic population in siRNA transfection not affecting mitosis was effectively reduced to nil, it remained elevated for siRNAs that resulted in a delay in mitotic progression.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
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