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Meaning of in a vacuum | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Divorced from its proper context and therefore suffering from incomplete analysis.

Equivalents

Italiano fuori da un contesto

Examples

“He is fond of saying that "nothing happens in a vacuum", by which he means that external factors always matter in at least some ways; sometimes he exaggerates this principle by claiming polemically that "there are no coincidences".”

“Speaking at a UN general debate on the Middle East in New York, Guterres created fury when he said: “It is important to … recognise the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.””

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

in a way in a word in a world of one's own in abatement in abeyance in Abraham's bosom