vacuum

In 2024 the Biden Administration withdrew U.S. troops from Niger, creating a vacuum that jihadists have exploited.

Two machines resembling robotic vacuum cleaners sped around a ring colliding, shooting sparks and catching fire, as Iranian engineering students watched from behind plexiglass.

A sea of yellow—ocher, dandelion, goldenrod—seems to support a single tree backed by a dark vacuum, but as our eyes adjust, we realize a barn in deepest alizarin crimson dominates the scene.

A more accurate understanding of revolution, however, emphasizes the failure of government and the ensuing power vacuum that rival forces then compete to fill.

Her first spoken word, which comes to her while gazing in awe upon a “disappearing machine,” as she thinks of it, is the French term for “vacuum cleaner.”