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null and void
Idioms and Phrases
Canceled, invalid, as in The lease is now null and void . This phrase is actually redundant, since null means “void,” that is, “ineffective.” It was first recorded in 1669.Example Sentences
This sweeping power, DOJ has concluded, deprived Boasberg of jurisdiction over the migrants, rendering his orders null and void.
"Seems to me, if somebody contends that the action by the Supreme Court of North Carolina is null and void because it should have been in federal court, they can appeal the North Carolina Supreme Court to the Supreme Court of the United States," Niemeyer said to Griffin's counsel at one point.
“In the case of basketball, if the player enters the transfer portal, the deal is null and void,” Zito said.
Justice Jackson’s intervention hopefully reminded her colleagues that both Kavanaugh and the chief’s judicial modesty approach would have allowed states to render the marriages of at least two of the court’s justices null and void, and more importantly would as she stated “undermine the foundations of our bedrock equal protection cases.”
“If you don’t come up with something positive, that 22 acres is null and void,” he told Miller.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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