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vacuum

[vak-yoom, -yoo-uhm, -yuhm] / ˈvæk yum, -yu əm, -yəm /


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Moving forward, I felt—the strange, humming vacuum between here and there.

From Literature

Most important, the judgment doesn’t take place in a vacuum.

From The Wall Street Journal

Pontormo wasn’t painting in a vacuum, and his decision to shake up artistic conventions may also reflect the turbulent politics, local and liturgical, of his times.

From The Wall Street Journal

Participants need a safeguard in this regulatory vacuum, and plan sponsors need a fiduciary firewall.

From The Wall Street Journal

But with enough of a vacuum, they could.

From The Wall Street Journal