VACUATED Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

vacuated

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past tense of vacuate

as in evacuated

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Sony and Fujifilm also evacuated staff from their plants in the area, Nikkei newspaper reported.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
Bordeaux turned an exhibition center into an emergency shelter, providing cots and food for thousands of evacuees, including hundreds of older people evacuated from care homes.

— Mark Carlson, Fortune, 27 July 2026

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Players were exhausted after nearly two years of shifting restrictions and the stress of constantly facing the possibility of solitary confinement in a foreign city.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 25 July 2026
While the use of subpoena power against journalists has always been highly controversial, officials in past administrations sometimes justified it by arguing it was used as a last resort, after other investigative avenues were exhausted.

— Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 23 July 2026

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More recently, gang violence has emptied out entire neighborhoods as more Haitians have fled both within the country and abroad to Canada and the United States.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
Back at the Red Bull team bus, moments after the stage finish, two soigneurs emptied an ice-bath.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 22 July 2026

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The full court vacated that ruling earlier this month but went a step further on Tuesday by also staying the lower court’s ruling.

— Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 22 July 2026
Neighboring mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth vacated its East 69th Street townhouse last year before selling the property, while Brazilian gallery Nara Roesler left the block in 2020.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 20 July 2026

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On the bridge, Sam taunts his brother before getting sucked out a hole in the observation window, graphically.

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 30 July 2026
Often, compositions came from MacLeod watching a YouTube video, thinking the music sucked, then trying to make something more suitable.

— Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 30 July 2026

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