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as in hunger
a need or desire for food
the emptiness that usually sets in about three o'clock in the afternoon
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as in void
empty space
there in the vast emptiness of the desert was a long-abandoned jeep
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as in vacancy
the quality or state of being empty
the emptiness of the interior of the isolated house just made it seem all the more eerie
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Recent Examples of emptiness
Interstellar space is unforgivingly vast, but the emptiness has some advantages.
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Kai James, The Conversation, 26 May 2026
The Tuesday parking shortage and the Monday emptiness are not anomalies to correct.
—Chase Garbarino, Fortune, 15 May 2026
Lift up your eyes unto the hills, and behold all that delightful emptiness.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
Elijah Strand, Athena’s uncle, told the court that Horner’s actions devastated their family and left them with an emptiness that can’t be filled.
—Harriet Ramos
may 5, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 May 2026
Why do people team up around an emptiness, so much spent breath?
—Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
The scene leaves us wondering about the sudden emptiness.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2026
The average kitchen cabinet holds three or four plastic spray bottles in various states of emptiness, each one destined for the recycling bin—or, more likely, the trash.
—Jamie Thilman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Apr. 2026
There is no pathos in Sweeney’s delivery, only emptiness.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
Kai James, The Conversation, 26 May 2026
The Tuesday parking shortage and the Monday emptiness are not anomalies to correct.
—Chase Garbarino, Fortune, 15 May 2026
Lift up your eyes unto the hills, and behold all that delightful emptiness.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
Elijah Strand, Athena’s uncle, told the court that Horner’s actions devastated their family and left them with an emptiness that can’t be filled.
—Harriet Ramos
may 5, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 May 2026
Why do people team up around an emptiness, so much spent breath?
—Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
The scene leaves us wondering about the sudden emptiness.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2026
The average kitchen cabinet holds three or four plastic spray bottles in various states of emptiness, each one destined for the recycling bin—or, more likely, the trash.
—Jamie Thilman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Apr. 2026
There is no pathos in Sweeney’s delivery, only emptiness.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emptiness
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Ancient ruins deliver on that hunger like little else.—
Hanna Wickes,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
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In her work with zebra finches, Elie has categorized 11 of the birds’ calls, linking them to distinct meanings such as hunger, danger, bonding and social conflict.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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Lyman, along with Eric Tobin of Hopeless Records and Mike Kaminsky of KMGMT, who also teaches at USC, got together to create the Summer School tour, a traveling group of emerging pop-punk and indie acts, to try to fill the void left after Warped Tour temporarily hung up its cape in 2019.—
Charlie Vargas,
Daily News,
4 June 2026
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Also, with the moon in Capricorn going void in your relationship sector after opposing Jupiter, emotions are running high.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
3 June 2026
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Edmondson, a former City Council member, was appointed in 2023 to fill a vacancy left by Councilmember Barry Leonard.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2026
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The Toronto Sceptres and Boston Fleet also currently have vacancies at the head coach position after Troy Ryan (San Jose) and Kris Sparre (Hamilton) accepted jobs with the league’s new expansion teams.—
Hailey Salvian,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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Her stomach was already turning on her.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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The most common symptoms are diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps, according to the CDC.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
2 June 2026
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Not only do the records feature scuff marks and price tags, but poems and doodles—as if the blankness was begging to be filled in.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
24 May 2026
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The terrifying blankness of James Raterman’s military interrogator.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2026
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But in 1990, Mierers died of complications from AIDS, leaving a power vacuum that split the group into two factions.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
1 June 2026
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Hopecore didn’t emerge in a vacuum.—
Jasmine Browley,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Google is trying to capitalize on a growing appetite for its homegrown AI chips, known as tensor processing units, or TPUs.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
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The semaglutide medication slows the digestive system, and combined with reduced appetite and lower fluid intake, that can leave users feeling backed up for weeks at a time.—
Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2026
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This subversive summer scent trend is also a natural offshoot of last year’s influx of fill-in-the-blank-savory-food-girl summer; 2025’s tomato perfume is 2026’s sea salt scent.—
Kara Jillian Brown,
InStyle,
3 June 2026
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Schmidt then fills in the blanks.—
Glenn Whipp,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
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“Emptiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emptiness. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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