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
Then there are meetings — the black holes of the business universe where time goes to die.
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Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
Yeah, so there’s black holes, there’s the Big Bang, there’s search for [extraterrestrial] life.
—Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 6 Nov. 2025
The black hole of fossil fuels was not, in other words, only expanded by the likes of Oxy.
—Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
These accretion disks gradually drop matter into the maw of the black hole, but not all of the material surrounding black holes is consumed.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2025
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Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
Yeah, so there’s black holes, there’s the Big Bang, there’s search for [extraterrestrial] life.
—Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 6 Nov. 2025
The black hole of fossil fuels was not, in other words, only expanded by the likes of Oxy.
—Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
These accretion disks gradually drop matter into the maw of the black hole, but not all of the material surrounding black holes is consumed.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for black hole
Noun
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The boy jerks his head as if to wake himself, turns around abruptly and looks the other way, even though there’s nothing special to see besides darkness and emptiness, which is where a living eye should never look.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Grogan isn’t alone in feeling the emptiness that can follow a massive milestone.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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For the market, the coaching carousel will keep roiling until vacancies are filled, and big names like Riley will continue to get floated around.—
Rowan Fisher-Shotton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Nov. 2025
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The Rochester Police Department in New York has 100 vacancies, according to Spectrum News 1.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Nov. 2025
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Pennywise is from a void that exists outside our dimension called the Macroverse.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Still, the 49ers are scouring to fill Warner’s on-field void.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
7 Nov. 2025
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The department placed its last order of blanks (the flat metal disks used to make the coins) in May.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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Throughout the movie, Lanthimos doles out pieces of backstory in short, dreamlike sequences that unfurl in black and white, artfully filling in the blanks of Teddy’s particular interest in Michelle.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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