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  • verb Present participle of vacate.

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Examples

  • Some of these decisions were unpublished, as the courts did not see themselves as doing anything interesting in vacating the convictions.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Good Faith Exception and Changing Law: A Brief History 2010

  • Just when the football was finally good enough to make Florida State fans forget about the phrase vacating wins, another Seminoles receiver went out and screwed up, Heather Dinich writes.

    ESPN.com 2009

  • If I lose my say around my own generated content, you can bet I won’t think twice in vacating the premises and I’m sure I won’t be the only one.

    Who owns the wisdom of the crowd? The crowd. « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Although the present study is true to the _Bhagavata Purana_ where the snake is explicitly described as vacating the water and meeting its end on dry land, other pictures, notably those from Garhwal [129] follow the

    The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry W. G. Archer 1943

  • The little Sheriff did not relish the idea of vacating the chair, and therefore the question was put whether the meeting would hear what I had to say or not.

    Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 Henry Hunt 1804

  • It does, though, show the idea of vacating wins is based on the belief an athlete is ineligible from the time he or she committed academic fraud, even though it may not have been discovered until some time later.

    Central Florida News 13 - Latest Headlines 2009

  • Indeed, one might well say that the methodological diversity that has come to distinguish Romanticism and its allied or subsidiary fields is predicated upon "vacating" the aesthetic spirit

    Introduction: 'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence 2005

  • The "vacating" of the wins at FSU affects football, track and other sports.

    PopPolitics.com 2009

  • As NCAA spokesman Chuck Wynne explained it, the Memphis case was unusual only in the attention it drew even though the penalty - removing or "vacating" the Tigers 'record 38 victories in the 2007-08 season and a Final Four appearance - caused critics to cry foul.

    Kentucky.com: Homepage 2009

  • It is something little children know as make-believe, as in making believe that Michigan's Fab Five basketball team never existed, which is what Michigan and the NCAA would have us believe after the NCAA accepted Michigan's self-imposed "vacating" of Fab Five accomplishments due to recruiting violations.

    unknown title 2009

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