Thesaurus results for VACANCIES

vacancies

noun

plural of vacancy

as in voids

empty space the vast vacancy that exists between our solar system and the nearest star having its own orbiting planets

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Recent Examples of vacancies 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 Long before years of vacancies and disinvestment altered the landscape, Prospect was lined with businesses, gathering places and institutions that served as the center of daily life for many Black residents. —

J.m. Banks june 1, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2026 Over the course of the last few years, the number of vacancies in the mall has also increased, exceeding 50% in January. —

Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026 White House officials declined to say when the president plans to submit new nominations for the Cabinet vacancies to the Senate. —

Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 30 May 2026 Aside from a traditional special election, the city’s other options to fill mid-term vacancies are an interim or a long-term appointment. —

Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 29 May 2026 In spite of the workforce reductions, county officials said most departments structured their cuts to avoid layoffs by eliminating vacant positions or positions with vacancies elsewhere in the county. —

Reeti Malhotra, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026 While the county’s charter outlines that vacancies would be replaced by the Board of County Commissioners, Florida law preempts the charter. —

Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 May 2026 Job postings without current vacancies would also be allowed only if the employer had hired at least six employees for similar roles in the prior year. —

Michelle Travis, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

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The cosmic web is the term scientists use to describe a skeleton-like framework of filaments and sheets of dark matter and gas along which galaxies gathered and evolved over time, which is punctuated by nearly empty voids.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 15 May 2026
The claim, remember, is that these cosmic voids are completely empty of normal matter, dark matter, and emit no detectable radiation of any kind.

— Big Think, Big Think, 26 Mar. 2026