as in deserted
left unoccupied or unused
vacated cottages that are easy targets for burglars during the winter
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as in abolished
to put an end to by formal action
the contract was vacated by the court on the grounds that the signer was underage
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Recent Examples of vacated
Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 23 Dec. 2024
After Sephora vacated Penney’s and set up shop at Kohl’s, Penney’s rolled out JCP Beauty departments with an inclusive mix of masstige, prestige and mass brands from new, emerging and established companies, to all of its stores.
—David Moin, WWD, 18 Dec. 2024
Title 9 Sports Grill, a sports bar focused on women's athletics, will open in January in the Melrose District space being vacated by Short Leash Hotdogs and Taproom.
—Axios Phoenix, Axios, 18 Dec. 2024
Thousands of people have vacated their homes in Malibu, California, due to the Franklin Fire setting the city ablaze, including a litany of high-profile residents.
—Caroline Thayer, Fox News, 12 Dec. 2024
Menendez’s seat was vacated after he was found guilty on 16 charges in a wide-ranging corruption case.
—Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 9 Dec. 2024
Chase vacated the building in 2021 for its new campus in Tempe, leaving Arizona's tallest building empty.
—Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2024
In an April 2024 appeal hearing, a judge granted Julie's appeal and vacated her seven-year sentence in June due to insufficient evidence while Todd's sentence was upheld.
—Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
Three days after the Berliners vacated Carnegie, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, another indisputably world-class ensemble, arrived to play two concerts under Klaus Mäkelä, its twenty-eight-year-old chief conductor designate.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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The injunction, which applies to the 2025 season unless it is vacated on appeal, blocks NASCAR from denying 23XI Racing and Front Row the same terms offered to charter teams and ensures the two teams are not compelled to release legal claims against NASCAR.
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Ronald Reagan, as president, called for the department to be abolished.—
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Courtesy of the Social Security Fairness Act, millions of Americans will see higher Social Security checks now that the windfall elimination provision (WEP) and GPO (government pension offset) have been abolished.—
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Unlike a trash can, which can be emptied in a jiffy, garbage disposal cleaning needs to be more than running it for 30 seconds with hot water.—
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Worst moment In terms of on-pitch moments, take your pick from the 6-0 defeat at Chelsea, the 3-2 defeat snatched from the jaws of victory against Bournemouth, or the recent 4-0 defeat at Manchester United where the away end had emptied long before the final whistle.—
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The 33 towns being considered for this project, which are expected to meet final approval in the coming weeks, are all on the brink of extinction with the number of empty and abandoned houses outnumbering those that are inhabited.—
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The team had a group task to accomplish, yes, but at every checkpoint, people had to make the decision to be selfish or selfless, and the selfish ones got rewarded while the selfless were left abandoned and miserable on the loch.—
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Staff at a nearby senior care center have evacuated as a result, moving patients still in hospital beds and gowns to safety while awaiting medical transport to safer locations.—
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Authorities said 30,000 people have been evacuated from 10,000 homes or 15,000 structures (including businesses).—
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One of the most powerful scenes in Sugarcane takes place in a disused barn where, over a period of decades, Indigenous children worked under the lash.—
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McQueen spends half an hour dispassionately showing us the grimness of HMP Maze, a Troubles-era warehouse for enemies of the British state on a disused airfield.—
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However, the bill's language caused much confusion and gridlock in 2019, leading Parliament to pursue an additional measure, which repealed the 2011 act and instituted the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill, which Queen Elizabeth II assented to in March 2022.—
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Voters in November repealed part of a decade-old law that softened some criminal penalties and ousted two progressive district attorneys who championed such reforms.—
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Two other seats were left vacant when Democratic lawmakers died.—
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Council members March 25 voted unanimously to rezone a vacant property on the west side of Montgomery for high-intensity mixed-use development, a designation allowing combinations of apartments, hotels and retail spaces.—
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In 2022, millions of passengers were left stranded after Southwest Airlines canceled more than 16,900 flights due to an operational meltdown.—
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More shows are getting made, therefore more shows are getting canceled.—
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“Vacated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vacated. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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