cause/create/leave a vacuum

idiom

: to leave an empty space : to create a situation when an important person or thing has gone and has not been replaced

Her death has caused/created/left a vacuum in our lives.

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But that may only leave a vacuum to be filled by the next glittery charlatan to catch the media’s attention. —Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023

These should all include oxygen absorbers inside, which will draw out oxygen and create a vacuum in the food container – allowing surprising longevity of the food (30 years or more, under ideal storage) with no significant nutrient loss. —Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2020

The deserted landscape could create a vacuum in which crime, violence and open drug usage worsens. —Jack Kelly, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022

To help draw the water out of your ear, create a vacuum by tilting your head sideways and resting your ear on your cupped palm to form a tight seal. —Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 29 June 2021

While rain showers may sound beneficial, pyrocumulonimbus clouds create a vacuum effect within wildfires that can kick up erratic, ember-scattering winds, making conditions even more hazardous for firefighters on the ground. —Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 July 2021

People against the draft also wondered if fewer would be incentivized to invest in children, which would create a vacuum in development. —Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022

The engine that powers every tropic cyclone is convection: enormous volumes of moist, rising air create a vacuum at the surface that sucks in surrounding air as spiraling winds. —Martin J. Kernan, Scientific American, 1 June 2023

Their deaths leave a vacuum atop the ministry in charge of domestic security, responsible for overseeing the country’s police, its national guard and border patrol units. —Megan Specia, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2023