vacuates

present tense third-person singular of vacuate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for vacuates
Verb
  • Flores checks for spills, then empties the mug back into the pot by hand and does it again — hundreds of times.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026
  • To begin, lab assistant Julia Butac empties a burlap bag of beans into a bin and starts to sift them a couple handfuls at a time, removing anything that isn't a full bean.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 10 May 2026
Verb
  • Not everyone evacuates at once in a storm.
    Alexandra Phelps, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026
  • There is this tendency to frame eating disorders as a purely biological phenomenon in a way that kind of evacuates them of all meaning, or actually repels the attempt to create meaning.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • People rely on the Amazon for water and the hotter, drier conditions should increase wildfire risk, Seabrook said, threatening to turn the Amazon, which now sucks heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, into a region that worsens the problem.
    Seth Borenstein, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2026
  • People rely on the Amazon for water and the hotter, drier conditions should increase wildfire risk, Seabrook said, threatening to turn the Amazon, which now sucks heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, into a region that worsens the problem.
    ABC News, ABC News, 27 May 2026
Verb
  • If the search for a large outdoor planter exhausts you—just get a terra-cotta planter.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Apr. 2026
  • As the oil blockade quickly exhausts Cuba’s supply of fuel, triggering a series of lengthy, island-wide blackouts, many here are exhausted and are becoming increasingly vocal about their desire for fundamental changes in Cuba.
    Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Even if a state court vacates his conviction, that would simply allow an immigration judge to reconsider his case.
    Hanna Park, CNN Money, 10 May 2026
  • Instead, his retreat vacates Chelsea’s midfield screen, allowing Carlos Baleba time and space to turn near the centre circle.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • What voids a bumper-to-bumper warranty?
    Kate Tully Ellsworth, USA Today, 16 May 2026
  • The agencies’ responses come in the wake of a new Kansas law that voids the state identification documents of roughly 1,800 trans Kansans who have changed their gender markers.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2026
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“Vacuates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vacuates. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.

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