VACUATED Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

vacuated

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past tense of vacuate

as in evacuated

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In Kyiv’s suburb of Vyshneve, about 600 residents were evacuated because of the risk of unexploded munitions, Ukraine’s Emergency Service said.

— Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
The parkway was evacuated Saturday evening while droves of people were still in line to enter due to approaching thunderstorms.

— Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 6 July 2026

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Base editing was used for the first time in a 2022 clinical trial to modify the immune cells of a UK teenager after doctors exhausted all other options to treat her form of leukemia.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
As a retired New Jersey State Trooper, Bob exhausted all of his law enforcement resources.

— Edie Peffley, NBC news, 8 July 2026

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Dwayne Johnson is a famously big guy, one who has emptied the ocean of cod to fulfill his protein needs and whose workouts could form their own editorial verticals at various men’s magazines.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 July 2026
The two exchanged words and the dugouts emptied, but order was quickly restored and no one was ejected.

— Kyle Glaser, Oc Register, 7 July 2026

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Local first-quarter net absorption, the difference between space leased and vacated, and often a sign of turnover, was a negative 179,000 square feet.

— Hang Nguyen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
That action came months after Calvin Duncan, who spent decades in prison before his murder conviction was vacated, was elected to the criminal clerk office.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026

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Moreover, a cup of water, a few ounces of sand or even air sucked through a filter can hold enough information to determine what has been in the area, including people, wildlife and infectious pathogens.

— Jenny Whilde, The Conversation, 7 July 2026
The moment the Norwegian’s header went in was like the air was completely sucked out of my section of the stadium.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 6 July 2026

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