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Recent Examples of vacancies
Seven vacancies will be kept open.
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David Folkenflik, NPR, 18 May 2026
Commissioner vacancies compound the staffing problem.
—Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Smart and courageous action to cut DOC’s remaining vacancies can free up nearly $100 million more next year to deliver on the mayor’s community safety commitments that inspired hope in so many people.
—Jason Rodriguez, New York Daily News, 16 May 2026
The department already has 13 vacancies, another 13 injured or with long-term illness.
—Brandon Truitt, CBS News, 16 May 2026
The number of applications was shrinking, competition among agencies for qualified candidates was intensifying and vacancies were becoming increasingly difficult to fill.
—Joy Lepola-Stewart, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2026
Nearly 100 job vacancies could also close.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026
The rule was named after late Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney, who was head of the league’s Workplace Diversity Committee at the time, and requires teams to interview diverse candidates (minority or female) for head coach, general manager and coordinator vacancies.
—ABC News, 13 May 2026
In other recent vacancies, the city opened applications to the public.
—Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 11 May 2026
David Folkenflik, NPR, 18 May 2026
Commissioner vacancies compound the staffing problem.
—Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Smart and courageous action to cut DOC’s remaining vacancies can free up nearly $100 million more next year to deliver on the mayor’s community safety commitments that inspired hope in so many people.
—Jason Rodriguez, New York Daily News, 16 May 2026
The department already has 13 vacancies, another 13 injured or with long-term illness.
—Brandon Truitt, CBS News, 16 May 2026
The number of applications was shrinking, competition among agencies for qualified candidates was intensifying and vacancies were becoming increasingly difficult to fill.
—Joy Lepola-Stewart, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2026
Nearly 100 job vacancies could also close.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026
The rule was named after late Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney, who was head of the league’s Workplace Diversity Committee at the time, and requires teams to interview diverse candidates (minority or female) for head coach, general manager and coordinator vacancies.
—ABC News, 13 May 2026
In other recent vacancies, the city opened applications to the public.
—Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 11 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vacancies
Noun
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The cosmic web is the term scientists use to describe a skeleton-like framework of filaments and sheets of dark matter and gas along which galaxies gathered and evolved over time, which is punctuated by nearly empty voids.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 May 2026
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The claim, remember, is that these cosmic voids are completely empty of normal matter, dark matter, and emit no detectable radiation of any kind.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Keep your dishwasher clean, and close obvious gaps to prevent rodents.—
Kate Van Pelt,
The Spruce,
22 May 2026
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Chris Richards, from Alabama, is an uncompromising defender whose Afro towers above the back line and whose lankiness masks a quickness that covers gaps in the American half.—
Leander Schaerlaeckens,
New Yorker,
22 May 2026
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That matters because the gas inside galaxy clusters constantly radiates energy away in X-rays and should gradually cool over time, and scientists suspect energy released by supermassive black holes, known as AGN feedback, helps reheat that gas and prevent runaway cooling.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
20 May 2026
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Several other similar observatories have come online since then to glimpse hundreds of additional events, but all this activity represents a narrow range of gravitational waves—those created when neutron stars or relatively small black holes collide.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
15 May 2026
Noun
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The site may ask you to connect with a chat bot to fill in any blanks in your application.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 May 2026
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Thoughts race, filling in the blanks with worst-case scenarios.—
ByBryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2026
Noun
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Is this a biting farce about the vacuities of celebrity industry?—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Vacancies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vacancies. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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