vacuum
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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
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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
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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
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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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