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vacuum

[vak-yoom, -yoo-uhm, -yuhm] / ˈvæk yum, -yu əm, -yəm /


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“If we start losing our wildlife, that’s a vacuum on my little community, my county,” said John Paul Schuster, a Kinney County judge and rancher with his wife, Donna Schuster.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

In that vacuum, it makes sense that some Catholics have begun to invent their own beliefs.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026

In the vacuum created by Swalwell’s collapse, his Democratic rivals frenetically cast about for momentum.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Using those simulations, the team predicted how gravitational waves would appear if black holes merged inside a dense dark matter environment rather than in a vacuum.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

The energy in a tiny volume of vacuum must be fluctuating constantly.

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




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