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"zeroing out" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate the process of reducing a value to zero, or the outcome of something being reduced to a value of zero. For example, "After the sale, the store manager zeroed out any remaining inventory."
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zeroing out
verb
Present participle of zero out
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The White House has also strongly objected to the subcommittee's zeroing out financing.
In April, it received a $1 million matching grant — the final donation Olin made before zeroing out its bank balance.
From there, the second quarter of the arrays were set to 0 (thus zeroing out the higher frequencies, or so we thought).
Our newcode (FORNAX) implements multi-D transport, and can, by zeroing out transverse flux terms, emulate the ray-by-ray+scheme.
His administration initially proposed zeroing out federal support for the Special Olympics, but Trump reversed that late last week following sustained public backlash.
Such a plan would require enormous tax increases to finance, although supporters maintain that they would be offset by zeroing out every family's spending on premiums and deductibles.
It would require enormous tax increases to finance, although supporters maintain that they would be offset by zeroing out every family's spending on premiums and deductibles.
It would require enormous tax increases to finance, although supporters maintain the increases would be offset by zeroing out every family's spending on premiums and deductibles.
It would require enormous tax increases to finance, although supporters maintain they would be offset by zeroing out every family's spending on premiums and deductibles.
Washington's rumor mill put leaked to the press that the Chinese were considering zeroing out U.S.
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And there's the proposed zeroing-out of the Comprehensive Literacy grants, currently at $190 million, which are designed to improve literacy instruction from birth through grade 12.
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