VACUATED Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

vacuated

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past tense of vacuate

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More news Thousands were evacuated and six were hurt as the Hawk fire grew to more than 15,000 acres at the California-Nevada border.

— Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
More than a thousand people were forced to flee from a Croatian holiday resort last week, while hundreds more were evacuated from villages in western Germany and southwest France.

— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 24 Aug. 2026

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Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to be depleted in 2032, with the combined retirement and disability trust funds exhausted by around 2033 or 2034.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
The result was a landscape repeatedly cleared and exhausted for cotton and other cash crops.

— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2026

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Mullen said after the first burglary, not much was taken from the machines, as they had been emptied the previous day.

— Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026
As Jackson was being tended to, the Eagles sideline emptied onto the field to surround the running back.

— Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026

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The judge's ruling vacated the visa ban and also set aside visa denials that were based only on the policy.

— Michael Copley, NPR, 22 Aug. 2026
The change resulted in nearly 146 people getting their death sentences vacated and new penalty proceedings given to them, according to research from FIU’s Balanced Justice Project.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026

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