as in emptiness
empty space
discovered that there was a black hole in the library's collection with regard to her topic
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Recent Examples of black hole
This rift causes the black hole to slowly evaporate.
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Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
Scientists have used it to observe over 300 black hole mergers so far.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Enclosed by barriers and protected by African guards who call out to each other like a Greek chorus, the headquarters that house Horn, Cal, and his team operates as a vacuous black hole of containers and equipment.
—Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
For most of the observed black holes, that’s a bit less than the radius of the black hole itself.
—Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2025
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Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
Scientists have used it to observe over 300 black hole mergers so far.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Enclosed by barriers and protected by African guards who call out to each other like a Greek chorus, the headquarters that house Horn, Cal, and his team operates as a vacuous black hole of containers and equipment.
—Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
For most of the observed black holes, that’s a bit less than the radius of the black hole itself.
—Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for black hole
Noun
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At the end, every element is dismantled, the squares return to emptiness, and the streets resume their rhythm.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
19 Oct. 2025
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Fall from the emptiness of his promises—and that is not a metaphor.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The city’s vacancy rate has fallen back to pre-pandemic levels, and new housing construction is at its weakest pace in a decade, the report added.—
Nino Paoli,
Fortune,
18 Oct. 2025
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The Senate currently has 28 Republicans and six Democrats, with a vacancy in Senate District 26.—
Ella McCarthy,
Arkansas Online,
17 Oct. 2025
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While earnings season has helped fill the information void, this pause in government data comes at a uniquely unfortunate time, given questions about the health of the labor market and inflationary pressures during the trade war.—
Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
19 Oct. 2025
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Taking advantage of that void, Hamas began reasserting itself in force on the streets of Gaza.—
Kara Fox,
CNN Money,
19 Oct. 2025
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The friends said the prop gun only fired blanks.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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And then there's these little, sort of, smaller efforts to legalize X or Y or Z, fill in the blank.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Black hole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/black%20hole. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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