vacuum
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"He was a star... He had chosen the spotlight," Ditum argued, acknowledging that his story had the "misfortune" to break in the middle of a summer news vacuum.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
And Beijing has been quick to capitalize on the vacuum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Their observations may represent the first detection of vacuum birefringence occurring within a magnetar's extraordinarily powerful magnetic field.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 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 bright sky darkens as if the color is being sucked up by the world’s largest vacuum.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
The secondary currents are also always of the same sign, as are the currents in a Ruhmkorff coil, and as are the currents in high vacua with which Crookes has made us so familiar.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various
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
Now, however, that he had found means for obtaining and maintaining high vacua, Edison immediately went back to carbon, which from the first he had conceived of as the ideal substance for a burner.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer
In Paris he left the world all full of matter; here he finds absolute vacua.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
In reality, however, the sum of our actions and cognitions is no series of facts and intervening vacua, but a continuous stream.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
SharkNinja earlier this month raised its full-year guidance after second-quarter sales rose on strong demand across its products, which include blenders, vacuums and air fryers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
Kristi Noem was shown selling handheld vacuums on a home shopping network while Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth were hawking products on their own podcast.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
To warn you of Ada Taylor and her sympathy and mothers who wake you up with vacuums.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
A self-professed cleaning fanatic, she said she asked for a vacuum as a 16th birthday present and relishes the plush nap of a freshly vacuumed Porsche carpet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Any gases the probe encountered were vacuumed in and collected, then sealed in a canister.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 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
A Budget employee could have vacuumed them away during the cleaning.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024
The builder sort of vacuumed up his coffee so it didn't burn his lips.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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
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
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
It doesn’t really bother me, this early-morning vacuuming, because I wouldn’t be asleep anyway.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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