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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
vacuum . - noun Plural form of
vacuum .
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Examples
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Unfortunately, the world's experience with power vacuums is hardly encouraging.
06.04 M-mv 2004
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Unfortunately, the world's experience with power vacuums is hardly encouraging.
Archive 2004-06-01 M-mv 2004
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Unfortunately, the world's experience with power vacuums is hardly encouraging.
"[A] global vacuum of power. Be careful what you wish for." M-mv 2004
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(* 8) Anybody curious as to the origin of that phrase about "vacuums" - a ton of scientific experiments (especially chemical and physical sciences) are conducted in a "vacuum" (in a sealed tube with no air whatsoever) to completely eliminate outside variables.
Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture 2010
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These people were so close minded I couldn’t take it anymore, they still think tell lousy phony jokes works and they think that hammer closing a person into buying a $2000 vacuums is AWESOME.
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“The personal is political” was never meant to be wielded as a weapon against those with fewer choices, less access, nor was it designed to create wedges like the Lipstick Wars because our choices – not of whether to consume, as that is emphatically not a choice, but of what, when, where, why, and how to consume – are not made in vacuums and principles don’t pay the bills or do the dishes.
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The CPSC is asking consumers to unplug and stop using the recalled vacuums and to contact Electrolux for a free replacement of the handheld portion that contains the batteries.
Electrolux recalls 320,000 cordless vacuums with faulty batteries 2009
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The CPSC is asking consumers to unplug and stop using the recalled vacuums and to contact Electrolux for a free replacement of the handheld portion that contains the batteries.
Electrolux recalls 320,000 cordless vacuums with faulty batteries 2009
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So against that growth of Taliban influence into some of these areas that you might call vacuums, you've got a growing strength of the government of Afghanistan that is contesting that.
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The recalled vacuums are sliver and black and were sold nationwide at department stores, independent retailers and online between March 2003 and December 2008.
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