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This has made it difficult to capture consumers who were switching from cigarettes to smokefree nicotine products and allowed illegal products to fill the void.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

"I could only find information for parents of autistic kids. There was just an absolute void of information."

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

He managed to survive in the shielded void, a life-saving scenario that occasionally unfolds as multistory structures tumble pancake-style, support beams buckle and slabs of concrete crash down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

Last September, a court rejected a bid by Fenech to void the statements he gave to police directly after his 2019 arrest.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

I shook my head, trying to remember if any of us had spoken rudely about Mamá, but my thoughts were cloudy, eerily void of memory, a fact that stupefied me.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Lima Construction identified that the four window voids posed a risk to those working on the scaffolding platform.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Another artist who uses unusual displays for his work is Ben Cowan, who handcrafts and casts his surfaces, creating sculptural frames with voids reminiscent of elements from Gothic architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

He comforted terrified survivors and filled critical information voids by sending continual updates to friends and neighbors as firefighters fought the blaze.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

Asteroids with more internal voids tend to absorb impact energy more effectively, which leads to deeper and steeper craters and less debris scattered across the surface.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 17, 2026

Such objects are what we now call black holes, because that is what they are: black voids in space.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

The punishment was forfeiture of all wins in the 2024 season, which voided the team’s playoff eligibility, and a playoff ban the following year—the “death penalty,” the school lawyer called it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Before the 1970s, courts were extremely skeptical of the uneven bargaining power and information between the government and defendant, and voided plea bargains, if they even had to consider them at all.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

Physics papers which were sat last week had to be voided, while some of the same exam board's maths papers were also leaked earlier this month.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

The settlement administrator could have voided or stopped payment on the check.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

But the foul creatures hadn’t finished yet; holding their beautiful wings high, they squatted among the devastation and voided their bowels.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Moeller-Maersk after Panama seized its port assets, following a court voiding its port contracts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Tesla shareholders initially voted to give Musk the stock options in 2018, with a Delaware judge voiding the award in early 2024, citing inadequate shareholder disclosures.

From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025

Leonard’s performance has fallen short of expectations, so even the league voiding the last two years of his contract would have limited sting, and save the franchise the $100 million owed to the 34-year-old forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2025

They discovered that both increase of bladder pressure and sphincter muscle bursting activity associated with bladder emptying both stopped when PMCESR1+ cell activity was blocked during an ongoing voiding even.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024

Void′ing, the act of voiding: a remnant; Void′ness, emptiness: nullity.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various