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as in empty
lacking contents that could or should be present
a vacant room that could be converted into a classroom
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as in dormant
not being in a state of use, activity, or employment
looking for vacant land on which to build a house
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as in blank
not expressing any emotion
the prisoner's vacant and distracted expression
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as in deserted
left unoccupied or unused
police discovered that vagrants had been sleeping in the vacant warehouse
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as in emptiness
the quality or state of being empty
there's a melancholy air of vacantness that seems to hang over a beach town during the long lull of winter
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Recent Examples of vacant
Ryan Anderson, Arkansas Online, 22 May 2025
Some of them were relocated to vacant rooms and others were put up in area motels.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 20 May 2025
And Tom Aspinall’s Interim Title Jon Jones won the vacant UFC heavyweight title in March 2023, securing a submission win over Ciryl Gane at UFC 285.
—Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Fast forward: After three years, the site remains vacant, fenced and undeveloped.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2025
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The Speech building, only partially occupied, and the Procurement building, currently vacant, are on Campus Drive at the northeast corner of University Plaza, according to UALR.
—Ryan Anderson, Arkansas Online, 22 May 2025
Some of them were relocated to vacant rooms and others were put up in area motels.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 20 May 2025
And Tom Aspinall’s Interim Title Jon Jones won the vacant UFC heavyweight title in March 2023, securing a submission win over Ciryl Gane at UFC 285.
—Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Fast forward: After three years, the site remains vacant, fenced and undeveloped.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vacant
Adjective
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American retailers cried foul and indicated Santa Claus’s sled would be empty.—
Bruce Yandle,
Boston Herald,
1 June 2025
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Companies that are serious about the future of work know that AI implementation without workforce enablement is an empty investment.—
Sol Rashidi,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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The cause of the blaze has not been determined, but the company has acknowledged that it may have been sparked by a faulty dormant power line operated by Edison.—
Caroline Petrow-Cohen,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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Perhaps the Flyers believe that a certain segment of the fan base that’s been dormant through what has been a mostly incompetent decade will awaken with the return of one of the organization’s most popular all-time players now running the day-to-day operations at ice level.—
Kevin Kurz,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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But with a blank canvas on which to build a new version of Dedeaux Field, there was some upside.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2025
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The Treasury Department has placed its last order for blank pennies and plans to stop minting the one-cent coins as soon as that's exhausted.—
Scott Horsley,
NPR,
22 May 2025
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Banking has become functionally correct but emotionally devoid, with the industry swimming in a sea of sameness.—
Michael Abbott,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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Delle, devoid for so long from its intrinsic need for social interaction might be filling in the gaps by talking to himself.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
14 Feb. 2023
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But the Lions scored three times in the top of the third off USD starter Cal Scolari.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 May 2025
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As the Cubs, winners in seven of their last nine, head into an off day Thursday, here are three takeaways from their second straight series victory.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
Adjective
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On his release, Stern went on to spend the 1950s ping-ponging between New York and California, for a time living on a disused laundry barge in Sausalito.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
3 Mar. 2025
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One of the most powerful scenes in Sugarcane takes place in a disused barn where, over a period of decades, Indigenous children worked under the lash.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
8 Feb. 2025
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Lawyers from across the state have the opportunity to select an at-large attorney member who serves as chair of the commission, which routinely evaluates dozens of applications to fill court vacancies.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
25 May 2025
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Trump could have controlled the board by appointing members to fill two vacancies.—
David G. Savage,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2025
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The festival was deliberately planned for the barren weeks in June after college students left and before the summer concert and festival season kicked in.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
25 May 2025
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The Bureau’s new research station on Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano, with its high altitude and barren landscape, would prove to be the ideal collection spot.—
Ashley Braun,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2025
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“Vacant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vacant. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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