vacuum
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"What matters is that there is no vacuum," Aoun told AFP on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Expectations do not get anchored in a vacuum.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Only weeks later, the administration announced a large influx of unusually cheap imported ground beef before publicly identifying all of its sources, leaving enough of an informational vacuum for unsupported horse-meat rumors to flourish online.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
A statuesque figure of death, trailing black fabric, sweeps up the casualties of war with the efficiency of a human vacuum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Whoosh—air’s being sucked out of the universe, making a vacuum.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Sir William Crookes took up in 1872 the study of electric discharge through 192 high vacua, having been led to it by his researches on the radiometer.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
It is an undeniable fact that with very high frequencies, provided the impulses be of harmonic nature, like those obtained from an alternator, there is less deterioration and the vacua are more permanent.
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 Paris he left the world all full of matter; here he finds absolute vacua.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
Gauge.—For the purpose of measuring the vacua I have used an arrangement similar to McLeod's gauge, Figure 4; it has, however, some peculiarities.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various
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
Its Internet-of-Things and lifestyle products segment—which includes washing machines, vacuums and other appliances—was also weak.
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
On Thursday, workers in rubber pants roamed the water with vacuums that sucked up the algae in neat rows.
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
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
For 45 minutes, a “Q-facial” machine sprayed, vacuumed, exfoliated and hydrated my face, delivering ultrasonic waves at two different depths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
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
She sank down on it as soon as she got into the room and stretched out, feeling bathed, scoured, vacuumed, and for the first time simple.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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
National Park Service crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water last week and then pieces of the new flooring started breaking loose as crews began vacuuming the pool floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
National Park Service workers this week have been trying to clean the algae blooms off the bottom of the 2,000-foot-long pool by pouring hydrogen peroxide into the water and vacuuming the floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Mr. Tickham called out, “Are you done vacuuming? What about the Ulysses? Are you just going to leave it sitting there?”
From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo
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