in a vacuum

idiom

: separated from outside events or influences
The group was operating in a vacuum, cut off from the rest of the world.
The city's riots did not happen in a vacuum. They were caused by recent political events.

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That's not the same as insisting on authorial originality, some imagined notion that students should produce prose entirely on their own, in a vacuum, untouched by outside influence. Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025 Once experiments are live, results flow directly into the same analytics infrastructure that tracks overall product usage, ensuring teams aren’t evaluating changes in a vacuum. Dan Rogers, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025 Energy goes negative, at least momentarily, in quantum phenomena such as the Casimir effect, where (experiments show) two metal plates attract each other in a vacuum. Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 27 May 2025 And Knick fans are reminded that Dolan being one of the owners in town who’s never won a thing — in two sports — hasn’t happened in a vacuum, and that means whether Rose was a smart hire or not. Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 14 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for in a vacuum

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“In a vacuum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20a%20vacuum. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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