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Shortly before learning of her son’s demise, Maur receives a series of empty messages on her answering machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

For example, vacuuming an empty hallway is a simple task that can be automated with relatively little data.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Scientists have discovered a surprising ability of light that allows it to develop spinning patterns as it moves through empty space, without relying on special lenses, mirrors, or materials.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

"Water! Water!" the crowd shouted as it stormed a compound with data centres, armed with empty plastic bottles and jerry cans.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

I don’t even know Aunt Tess’s neighborhood except as a night-lurker, walking to and from work past shuttered businesses and empty streets.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

The “Thucydides Trap” is seductive, he said, because it empties the contest of everything that matters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Calderas form when an eruption empties such an enormous volume of magma that the ground above the reservoir collapses.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

“A bridge empties when the tolls gets high enough — no demolition required.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

Once Tottenham High Road empties of its revellers, the inquest from top to bottom must begin.

From BBC ● May 24, 2026

“Noah, you understand why I sunk the Coral Queen, right? Every time Dusty empties her holding tank, it’s like flushing a hundred filthy toilets into God’s ocean!”

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

Future observers will live in a universe that appears far smaller and emptier than the one we can see today.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026

Now, the Oscar-winning actor is adjusting to an emptier nest as two of his and wife Luciana Barroso’s four daughters head out into the world.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

“It’s quite . . . empty, emptier than you can imagine. There’s no more pain, no more suffering.”

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2025

Church pews, hospitals and whole neighborhoods have been emptier than usual.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025

The big barren parlor seemed suddenly emptier still.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

These regions are among the coldest and emptiest places in the universe.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 21, 2026

Per pupil spending in the district is $19,798, but per pupil costs at the 10 emptiest schools is double—almost $38,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

So it’s nice that Anne-Lise Millan-Brun, the founder of a bicycle school in Paris, has chosen as a training ground one of the emptiest places in this crowded city.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2023

Last fall, the region recorded its emptiest harvest year in recent history, she said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

On a dirt track in the Tanami Desert–normally one of the emptiest places on Earth–they came over a slight rise just as another vehicle was approaching.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

While a Roth IRA must also be emptied by year 10, the beneficiary doesn’t owe income tax on withdrawals as long as the Roth IRA has met the five-year holding requirement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

But before it can start, the glasshouse has to be completely emptied of the 1,300 tropical plants and trees it has inside.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Before blood pressure was measured, participants emptied their bladders and walked for two minutes to simulate the typical experience of walking into a clinic or medical office before a screening.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

A man was apparently digging around inside a dumpster when the driver picked it up and emptied it into the back of the truck, the department said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Others had drums of water that were supposed to become toilets when they were emptied.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

The first is slower gastric emptying, which means food moves from the stomach into the small intestine more gradually.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Indonesian authorities raided a prison outside Jakarta Wednesday where inmates have allegedly been paying to live in luxury, emptying several "villas" of furniture, bottles of alcohol and at least one big-screen TV.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Dr. Nidhi Kansal, an obesity-medicine doctor at Northwestern Medicine who wasn’t involved in the research, said that amylin works similarly to GLP-1 by slowing stomach emptying and can therefore still come with similar side effects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

"The weather had been wet and there was a problem with mixing the slurry and emptying the slurry before the cattle came in - it was quite a stressful situation," she told BBC Cymru Fyw.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Why else would they be emptying the prison!

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom