vacuities

Definition of vacuitiesnext
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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Noun
  • The district, which previously lost a quarter of its staff annually, reported opening schools with zero teaching vacancies for the first time after the project opened.
    Thomas White, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The latest data was published in the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce’s yearly economic indicators report, which offered an overall bleak picture of the Bay Area economy, including declining buying power among residents and deepening office vacancies in the city.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Schoen used void years sparingly early in his tenure, but the Giants are one of the few teams currently with no contracts containing voids.
    Dan Duggan, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • But in recent years, physicists have noted that black holes are also surprisingly similar to de Sitter space.
    Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
  • By studying this polarization, IXPE can help astronomers probe some of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos, such as why black holes spin, what powers the extreme jets blasting from supermassive black holes, or why pulsars glow so brightly in X-ray light.
    Brett Tingley, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • And in South Florida groups have stepped in to support migrants navigating complicated immigration processes, from deportation to self-deportation, often filling gaps left by government systems.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Experts have also said America’s broader retirement system earns just a C-plus grade, with persistent gaps in coverage, savings adequacy, and longevity protection.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Williams turns out to be the film’s star player, filling in the blanks of London’s short, sad life, and his powers of perception lead the film to its extraordinary conclusion, smoking out a killer who was hiding in plain sight at every step of the way.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
  • And then Kittle helped fill in the blanks.
    Noah Furtado, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2026

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“Vacuities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vacuities. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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