vacuum

There, I met Dan, an affable middle-aged fellow with gray tufts of hair, who was bustling around with a vacuum.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

The result is a sudden information vacuum at the Fed after more than 15 years of a very open communication style.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

Incidents like these have resulted in a trust vacuum that has made it much easier for bad actors to spread fake content.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

The researchers first used a vacuum pump to remove air from glass tubes, producing conditions that approximated the near emptiness of space.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026

Now, if Torricelli had upended the tube in air, everyone would expect the mercury to run out, because it would quickly be replaced by air; no vacuum would be created.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

But to reach extreme vacua the appliances must be much more improved, and ultimate perfection will not be attained until we shall have discharged the mechanical and perfected an electrical vacuum pump.

From The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin

Very high vacua can be obtained with the Leblanc pump, but the power required to drive it is more than is required with a 3-throw piston-pump.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

But to reach extreme vacua the appliances must be much more improved, and ultimate perfection will not be attained until we shall have discarded the mechanical and perfected an electrical vacuum pump.

From Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency by Nikola Tesla

In reality, however, the sum of our actions and cognitions is no series of facts and intervening vacua, but a continuous stream.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In measuring really high vacua, it is well to begin with this process of lowering and raising the cylinder, and to repeat it five or six times before taking readings.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various

Trapped ions, as the name suggests, are suspended in vacuums and manipulated by lasers.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

Looking out over the green sludge covered in cleaning equipment, speaking over the hum of the generators and the vacuums and the pumps, Hier smiled.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026

Kristi Noem was shown selling handheld vacuums on a home shopping network while Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth were hawking products on their own podcast.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

Lithium-ion batteries have become exceedingly common amid a proliferation of chargeable electronics, including smartphones, laptops, headphones, e-cigarettes, vacuums and e-bikes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026

To warn you of Ada Taylor and her sympathy and mothers who wake you up with vacuums.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

For 45 minutes, a “Q-facial” machine sprayed, vacuumed, exfoliated and hydrated my face, delivering ultrasonic waves at two different depths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

I haven’t seen such a suck-up since the last time I vacuumed my dad’s pool.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

If it seems like many of the same series vacuumed up most of the nominations, this is partly why.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024

Hilton, who had been about to watch his six-year-old son play a baseball game when he received a call, sprayed and vacuumed the bees away.

From BBC ● May 1, 2024

Today Dad vacuumed the living room, which is a first.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

What they could’ve done instead: Opt for lighter colors that are more forgiving, or get used to sweeping or vacuuming your floors more often.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

National Park Service workers this week have been trying to clean the algae blooms off the bottom of the 2,000-foot-long pool by pouring hydrogen peroxide into the water and vacuuming the floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

The couple made it work by vacuuming and keeping the cats out of their bedroom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

Campaigners want a deep clean of all buses more frequently, and the use of insecticidal treatments, heat treatments, improved vacuuming and sealed barriers in known hotspots.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025

Their old model black Mercedes was fussily maintained, the floor mats wavy from vacuuming, the leather seats shiny with polish.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie