Synonym: clean, sweep, void. Similar words: faculty, privacy, vaccine, spectacular, vivacious. Meaning: ['vækjʊəm] n. 1. the absence of matter 2. an empty area or space 3. a region that is devoid of matter 4. an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction. v. clean with a vacuum cleaner.
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61. But these things don't happen in a vacuum.
62. Most agreed there existed a certain vacuum.
63. Yet such direction rarely happens in a vacuum.
64. The exclusion of air to create a vacuum.
65. And Right-to-Life ideology has filled the vacuum.
66. He could hear the drone of a vacuum cleaner.
67. Vacuum cleaners work by suction.
68. A more recent innovation is vacuum distillation.
69. The iron lung encased Virginia in a vacuum.
70. Probably the instruction manual for the first vacuum cleaner.
71. But globalisation has created a vacuum of responsibility.
72. The sniffer device looked like a big vacuum cleaner.
73. Vacuum and brush curtains and draperies.
74. She switched on the vacuum cleaner.
75. In sum, many of these kids are growing up in a moral and ethical vacuum.
76. Finishing off Start the engine and simply run over the blocks as if using a vacuum cleaner.
77. However, such an assumption is simply not tenable, for science and technology do not develop in a social vacuum.
78. These vacuum cleaners of the sea are vital in preventing fouling of the marine environment.
79. Destroying one pest leaves a vacuum that will be filled by something else.
80. Ideals are not formed in an aseptic vacuum,[sentencedict.com/vacuum.html] but in the chemical brew of interacting personal lives and events.
81. This made a partial vacuum, which kept the cardboard attached to the mouth of the glass.
82. Mr Yeltsin insists simultaneous balloting could create a dangerous power vacuum.
83. The ideal atmosphere for the vacuum tube is no atmosphere at all, or a perfect vacuum.
84. They sent him along to vacuum the carpets, but he wound up with his very own theatre to practice in.
85. Nevertheless the discretion is not to be exercised in a moral vacuum.
86. We do not have to try to remember ourselves in a vacuum, as it were.
87. No refrigerator, no radio, no telephone, no automatic laundry, no vacuum cleaner.
88. Ngo Dinh Diem filled a vacuum, but despite his record of integrity, he lacked the dimensions of a national leader.
89. Individuals do not move through a smooth physical vacuum; they negotiate structured social contexts in company with other individuals.
90. Buyers brought forward purchases in August to beat the deadline on stamp duty, creating a vacuum in the following month.