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She can’t offer any real leadership, and that vacuum has invited chaos.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

That she may have committed the crime but may not be actually responsible for it leaves an uncomfortable vacuum, with no sense of finality.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

However, Aréstegui said El Niño "does not arrive in a vacuum".

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Removing it can require running the beverage through costly additional steps, such as advanced vacuum distillation or filtration, which some in the industry say strips out flavor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

This argument holds everywhere in the universe—in the center of the earth and in the deepest vacuum of space.

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

Since then I have pushed the matter still farther, and have succeeded in obtaining with my apparatus vacua as high as 1/390,000,000 without finding that the limit of its action had been reached.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various

Think we as we may, of all the possible directions to develop a practical illuminant, the line of high vacua seems to be the most promising at present.

From Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency by Nikola Tesla

With disruptive discharge coils there are sudden rises of potential and the vacua are more quickly impaired, for the electrodes are deteriorated in a very short time.

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

In measuring really high vacua, it is well to begin with this process of lowering and raising the cylinder, and to repeat it five or six times before taking readings.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various

Beyond the worlds vague ghosts of monstrous things; half-seen columns of unsanctified temples that rest on nameless rocks beneath space and reach up to dizzy vacua above the spheres of light and darkness.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

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

Superconducting circuits use metals cooled to near absolute zero; trapped ions are suspended in vacuums and manipulated by lasers.

From Barron's ● May 21, 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

There is consensus in the AI world that the model builders have vacuumed in almost all possible data that one can find accessible online.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

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

“Beef,” which has vacuumed up nearly every limited series prize in recent weeks, followed suit with the PGA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

I know she’s not in the kitchen or the living room or out at the pool and I just dusted fancy parlor number one and number two and vacuumed the bear.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

Google, OpenAI, and other AI companies are vacuuming up corporate data from both large public companies and small enterprises.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

Workers are using hydrogen peroxide and vacuuming to clean the algae, but much of the pool has remained green with algae growing back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Remediation personnel power washed the exterior of buildings, wiped down all surfaces and completed thorough vacuuming with filters to remove dangerous substances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026

I know from the quality of the light, from the sounds of the street outside my window, from the sound oi Cathy vacuuming the hallway right outside my room.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins