vacancy
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When Dismukes was appointed in 2025 to head the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, she inherited a system with a 49% vacancy rate of correctional officers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026
The vacancy rate in 2023 was 0.42%, among the lowest in Switzerland.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
"Law enforcement agencies across the United States continue to face significant recruiting and retention challenges, and every vacancy affects our organization and the community we serve," the police chief added.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
But "the temptation to declare vacancy will always be there," political scientist Fernando Tuesta told AFP.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
Normally, the type specimen of a species is the first set of bones found, but since no first set of Homo sapiens bones exists, there was a vacancy, which Cope desired to fill.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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The 25th Amendment (1967)
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