Thesaurus results for VACUITIES

vacuities

noun

plural of vacuity

as in vacancies

empty space the seemingly endless vacuity between settlements in the desert

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Recent Examples of vacuities Is this a biting farce about the vacuities of celebrity industry? — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026

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Republicans currently control the House at 218 seats, compared to the Democrats’ 212 seats, one independent seat and four vacancies.

— Emily R. Condon, USA Today, 26 July 2026
According to the league’s statistics and information department, these 10 vacancies are believed to be a record.

— Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 22 July 2026

Definition of vacancies

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If these voids aren't filled with credible information, employees will interpret events themselves, often leading to rumors that may or may not be true.

— Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
Researchers found that the solar wind experiments created tiny voids within the mineral structure.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026

Definition of voids

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Using all-too-brief TDEs to spot wandering black holes can make in-depth follow-up research difficult, according to Pieter van Dokkum, an astrophysicist at Yale University.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 29 July 2026
Miller said his dad used to sit in his firehouse, clipping newspaper stories on dark matter and black holes to send to his son.

— Lisa Song, CNN Money, 28 July 2026

Definition of black holes

Noun

The gaps show that frontier capability and practical deployment move at different speeds without discounting AI’s gains.

— Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
As of Tuesday, 103 kilometers (64 miles) of firebreaks — gaps in vegetation designed to impede fire spread — have been completed, the prefecture said.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 28 July 2026

Definition of gaps

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The family hopes witnesses will come forward to help fill in the blanks about what happened before Wells entered the water.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
Her brother, Tunji, fills in the British blanks for her, but life in Lagos was a time of playing on swings and watching her brother kick a ball with his friends.

— Riann Phillip, Vogue, 15 July 2026

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