vacuum

Example Sentences

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Participants need a safeguard in this regulatory vacuum, and plan sponsors need a fiduciary firewall.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

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 • Mar. 25, 2026

They go on to explain the vacuum in our present-day war machine:

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

The purges leave a leadership vacuum in China’s top ranks that was put on full display at legislative meetings in Beijing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

God could make a vacuum if he wanted.

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