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vacuum

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


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Researchers suspend tiny plastic particles in a plasma-filled vacuum chamber to simulate more complex systems.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026

None of this is occurring in a vacuum.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

Mr. Berg’s argument dissolves upon separation from the western ideological vacuum in which it is so delicately couched.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

Before Reed Hastings revolutionized the global entertainment business, he sold Rainbow vacuum cleaners door-to-door during his gap year between high school and Bowdoin College, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Was nature somehow perturbed less by a vacuum on top of a mountain than by a vacuum in the valley?

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




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