vacuated

past tense of vacuate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for vacuated
Verb
  • Amid chaos, one of the newborns dies, and the surviving twins are evacuated to the south, separated from their mother, who remains trapped in the north.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025
  • In the 1930s, amid fears the palace collection would be seized by Japan’s Imperial Army, many of the treasures were evacuated to other cities and spent years on the road, sometimes hidden in temples and caves on the way.
    Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The New York Giants fired head coach Brian Daboll on Monday after a 2-8 start to the 2025 NFL season and a string of fourth-quarter collapses that left ownership exhausted and fans demanding change.
    Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Buildings there are being emptied and padlocked during the government shutdown, sources said.
    Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Three were sprawling refugee camps near el-Fasher that have emptied as RSF troops advanced, with most people fleeing into el-Fasher or nearby towns.
    NPR, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Nearly 70 years later, a judge vacated the conviction, citing a fundamental deprivation of due process.
    Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This rule was challenged in multiple courts, and portions were blocked before being vacated in 2021.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • James Guimaraes was on mile seven of his last training run for the New York City Marathon when he got sucked into a bidding war.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Woody Allen’s 2007 drama, starring Farrell and Ewan McGregor as two brothers who get sucked into a murder plot, isn’t well liked, and Farrell’s performance is liked even less.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Vacuated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vacuated. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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