evacuated

past tense of evacuate
as in emptied
to remove the contents of evacuate the cupboards completely before spraying the insecticide

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Recent Examples of evacuated Sony and Fujifilm also evacuated staff from their plants in the area, Nikkei newspaper reported. CNN Money, 28 July 2026 Bordeaux turned an exhibition center into an emergency shelter, providing cots and food for thousands of evacuees, including hundreds of older people evacuated from care homes. Mark Carlson, Fortune, 27 July 2026 For Europe, the wildfires raging across France and Spain are causing a humanitarian and environmental disaster, with hundreds of thousands evacuated and historic damage to the countryside and farming. Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 27 July 2026 Authorities evacuated 79,000 people and confined 30,000 others to their homes. Mark Carlson, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026 About 220,000 people have been evacuated in France, while in neighbouring Spain more than 75,000 people have been told to leave their homes and a further 30,000 ordered to shelter in place, authorities said over the weekend. Janis Laizans, USA Today, 27 July 2026 Over 90,000 people have been evacuated from the regions around Madrid and Avila as the blazes burn through houses. Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 27 July 2026 More than 300,000 people were evacuated and at least one person killed because of wildfires in France and Spain, with fire crews battling the blazes for several days. Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 27 July 2026 All 121 workers inside the building were safely evacuated, Coupang said. Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 20 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evacuated
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  • More recently, gang violence has emptied out entire neighborhoods as more Haitians have fled both within the country and abroad to Canada and the United States.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
  • Back at the Red Bull team bus, moments after the stage finish, two soigneurs emptied an ice-bath.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 22 July 2026
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  • Mahomes has been cleared for Chiefs training camp, which opens Saturday morning with quarterbacks and rookies taking the back fields at Missouri Western State.
    Sam McDowell July 25, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2026
  • Once the debris cleared, this team determined that the system contained a helium star, one of only a few thousand of these stripped stellar bodies to be discovered among the billions of stars that populate the Milky Way.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 July 2026

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“Evacuated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evacuated. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

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