vacuate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for vacuate
Verb
  • If told to evacuate, do so immediately.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 9 Nov. 2025
  • As the violent storm threatens the country’s northeastern coast, millions of people have evacuated from villages at risk of flash floods, landslides, and tidal surges.
    Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 9 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Amid ongoing appeals of her conviction, Dorotik was released from prison in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and later that year, her conviction was vacated based on new evidence her attorneys had uncovered.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2025
  • One play later, Williams faked a handoff and booted around the left edge that had been vacated by outside linebacker Brian Burns.
    Dan Duggan, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The closet empties multiple times a day, then gets refilled and emptied again.
    Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The bottles were filled with candy and sprinkles, but after emptying them out, Jerry was able to fill them with his drink of choice.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The new-look adaptation featured Mario being from Brooklyn and being sucked into the Mushroom Kingdom.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Sensing danger, Charlie doubles down on sucking up.
    Caroline Framke, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The team concentrated on stars that had recently entered the post-main sequence phase, having exhausted their hydrogen, and identified just 130 planets and planet candidates orbiting nearby – 33 of which had not been detected before.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Despite these real dangers, our law enforcement shows incredible restraint in exhausting all options before force is escalated.
    James Hill, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • This early termination appears to have voided that final payment.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Google had hoped to void those changes with an appeal, but the ruling issued in July by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a legal blow for the tech giant, which has been waylaid in three separate antitrust trials affecting different pillars of its internet empire.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Vacuate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vacuate. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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