in a vacuum

prep_phrase

Definitions

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

    • 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".

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for in a vacuum. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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