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vacuum

[vak-yoom, -yoo-uhm, -yuhm] / ˈvæk jum, -ju əm, -jəm /


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At the same time, the three-pronged gluon junction could behave somewhat like a Y-shaped magnet, drawing in three newly created quarks from the vacuum and producing a new baryon.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

There, I met Dan, an affable middle-aged fellow with gray tufts of hair, who was bustling around with a vacuum.

From Slate Aug. 14, 2026

The result is a sudden information vacuum at the Fed after more than 15 years of a very open communication style.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

Incidents like these have resulted in a trust vacuum that has made it much easier for bad actors to spread fake content.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

The high-pitched whine of air through a vacuum fills my ears.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

But to reach extreme vacua the appliances must be much more improved, and ultimate perfection will not be attained until we shall have discharged the mechanical and perfected an electrical vacuum pump.

From The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin

Dr. W. Crookes has made many beautiful experiments on the behaviour of the molecules of attenuated matter in vacua.

From Creation and Its Records by Baden Henry Baden-Powell

Puluj declares that the phenomena I have described in high vacua are produced by his irregularly shaped lumps of radiant electrode matter.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 by Various

The principal advantage of this construction was that it allowed of reaching extremely high vacua, and, at the same time of using a large bulb.

From The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin

This, being out of the phenomenal world, is subject to none of the laws of phenomena, and is consequently as absolutely free, and as completely powerless, as a mathematical point, in vacua, would be.

From Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Thomas Henry Huxley

Trapped ions, as the name suggests, are suspended in vacuums and manipulated by lasers.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

Looking out over the green sludge covered in cleaning equipment, speaking over the hum of the generators and the vacuums and the pumps, Hier smiled.

From Slate Jun. 19, 2026

Lithium-ion batteries have become exceedingly common amid a proliferation of chargeable electronics, including smartphones, laptops, headphones, e-cigarettes, vacuums and e-bikes.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 2026

Instead, what they reliably create is destruction, and destruction generates its own dynamics: rallying among the population, power vacuums, radicalization and cycles of retaliation.

From Salon Mar. 4, 2026

Those hands could fix anything that cranked, moved, pumped heat, moved water, or had valves, vacuums, or wires.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

For 45 minutes, a “Q-facial” machine sprayed, vacuumed, exfoliated and hydrated my face, delivering ultrasonic waves at two different depths.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

If it seems like many of the same series vacuumed up most of the nominations, this is partly why.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2024

Hilton, who had been about to watch his six-year-old son play a baseball game when he received a call, sprayed and vacuumed the bees away.

From BBC May 1, 2024

In a matter of minutes, Davis had vacuumed up most of the bees to save the match.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 2024

It made me giggle as I vacuumed my room.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine

What they could’ve done instead: Opt for lighter colors that are more forgiving, or get used to sweeping or vacuuming your floors more often.

From MarketWatch Aug. 1, 2026

Social media videos featuring entrepreneurs power washing and vacuuming car interiors have spread like wildfire, leading some young people facing a challenging job market to start their own car detailing businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

She also gave up on the neutral household color scheme and plenty of her cleaning routines, including daily vacuuming or attempting to keep the kids’ toys in their bedrooms.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

Campaigners want a deep clean of all buses more frequently, and the use of insecticidal treatments, heat treatments, improved vacuuming and sealed barriers in known hotspots.

From BBC Oct. 13, 2025

All day, instead of laying up in bed, she works on decorating the ten-foot Christmas tree in the foyer, making my life a vacuuming hell with all the needles flying around.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett




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