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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That will leave the council with two Black members out of 15 for the first time since 1963, not counting temporary vacancies, according to archivists in the City Clerk’s office.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
European leaders are expected to work out a package deal to apportion the three vacancies among member countries in a complex round of political bargaining.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of vacancies

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Scaling up Engineers discovered voids, or air pockets, between layers of carbon fiber that make up the domes’ composite structure.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
The goal was to produce a more uniform film with compact crystal grains and fewer voids and defects.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of voids

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Together, these tools offered astronomers extraordinary insights into GRBs—extremely luminous eruptions that occur in distant galaxies when massive stars explode or collide, sometimes leaving behind neutron stars or black holes.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2026
Named after fast-flying birds, the telescope could quickly pivot to observe blink-and-you-miss-it cosmic events such as flaring black holes.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2026

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