Meaning & use
nothingburger
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something that turns out to be far less significant or interesting than it was made out to be.
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After weeks of hype, the scandal turned out to be a total nothingburger.
Reporters were disappointed when the press conference proved to be a nothingburger.
A note on using this word
An informal, mostly American term popular in journalism and politics; avoid it in formal writing.
Words with a similar meaning
anticlimax
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