vacancy
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Analysis by commercial property firm CBRE, external found that while the vacancy rate across UK shopping centres in the second quarter of this year was 16%, it was "significantly lower" at major centres.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
When the White Sox first spoke with him about a managerial vacancy a couple of years earlier, they had assigned him a written test.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Congress repealed that law in 1802, before a vacancy arose, and reset the number of justices to six.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Buettell, the deputy chief executive, told The Times that the county does not have the power to terminate Curtis’ employment because he was appointed to fill a vacancy in an elected position.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
He went to the front door and read the little vacancy notice pasted on the glass and saw that the flat was a rear one.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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The new sheriff also will be expected to rein in the department’s budget, which has experienced ballooning overtime costs as sworn vacancies have risen markedly under both sheriffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
The court later ruled that three of those appointments were valid, while two were unconstitutional because the vacancies arose during the next parliamentary term.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
But progress on filling some of these vacancies has been slow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
This week’s plenum appointed Gen. Zhang Shengmin to fill one of the Politburo vacancies, making him the only military member of this elite body.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Not a year after the end of the war, the familiar announcements of vacancies at the laboratory, including openings for computers, began to appear in the newsletter again.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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