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Trumpism was not suddenly born ex nihilo in 2015; it has been at least 30 years in the making.

Finally, while this trend clearly skyrocketed during the pandemic, it didn’t emerge ex nihilo.

It was creatio ex nihilo, despite the Aristotelian ban on the vacuum.

Any number can be written as a string of zeros and ones; to Leibniz, this was the creation ex nihilo, the creation of the universe out of nothing more than God/1 and void/0.

The Hilton was Europe’s first major modern hotel to be constructed ex nihilo after the war, built with glass, steel and White Portland cement from Germany, marble from Italy, aluminum windows, elevators and air-conditioning units from America.