vacuum
Example Sentences
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Pontormo wasn’t painting in a vacuum, and his decision to shake up artistic conventions may also reflect the turbulent politics, local and liturgical, of his times.
Participants need a safeguard in this regulatory vacuum, and plan sponsors need a fiduciary firewall.
But with enough of a vacuum, they could.
Around 9 a.m., sanitation workers were maneuvering what appeared to be a massive vacuum hose inside the drain, hoovering up debris before the manhole cover could be sealed.
From Los Angeles Times
They go on to explain the vacuum in our present-day war machine:
From Salon
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