vacuities

plural of vacuity
as in vacancies
empty space the seemingly endless vacuity between settlements in the desert

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Noun
  • Following his staffers' resignation, Pruitt released a statement that his office already had applicants to fill the vacancies and would continue to carry out its duties.
    Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The Giants’ initial list of external candidates is believed to include most of the names that will be popular with other clubs that have managerial vacancies.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In total, nearly 12 tons of grout — approximately 1,740 gallons — have been pumped into the famous ocher walls to fill existing voids.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • In an interview with Variety, Elliot says that Charleson’s death left two voids in her life, one as an acting partner and one as a friend.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These are essentially black holes feeding on their surrounding matter with such speed that a cocoon of surrounding gas starts to glow like a bright star.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The stars will all burn out; the corpses of these stars will radiate all their heat away and cool to absolute zero; the stellar remnants will gravitationally interact, ejecting the majority of objects into intergalactic space, while the few remaining black holes grow to enormous sizes.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Recently, both the qualifying and race pace gaps have been trending down, and Hamilton is looking much more comfortable at the team.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • With a constellation of eyes in the sky, forecasters could suddenly monitor conditions over oceans and remote landmasses, filling in major gaps in their models and providing an early warning system about potential storms forming far away.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Toklas filled in the blanks for him, sometimes unwittingly.
    Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Hissrich mentions needing to fill in a lot of the blanks left in that character's story in the books.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Vacuities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vacuities. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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