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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of vacuum.

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Examples

  • In the original HP-150, these emitters & detectors were placed within small holes located in the inside of the monitor’s bezel (which resulted in the bottom series of holes sometimes filling with dust and causing the touch screen to fail; until the dust was vacuumed from the holes).

    The H.P. Touch Computer on the Computer Chronicles in 1983 - The Retroist 2010

  • You also get a free Bushman car wash because your insides get cleaned and vacuumed in the process.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • "When we're done with a property, it looks like a freshly vacuumed carpet…It's beautiful."

    Down and Dirty: Cleaning After Geese Patrick G. Lee 2011

  • I even vacuumed with him sleeping in it yesterday.

    One month and counting 2009

  • So now I've cleared the smoke out, I've vacuumed, I've put the eggs on the right hotplate, I'm about to go have a shower ...

    A new week ... karenmiller 2009

  • In the most glaring example that indicated the company didn't have a good grasp on what its workers were doing, Google acknowledged in May that one of its engineers had created a program that vacuumed up potentially sensitive personal information, including e-mails and passwords, from unsecured wireless networks while Google cars cruised neighborhoods around the world.

    Google Tightening Privacy Leash On Employees AP 2010

  • (If you'd like your office vacuumed, you'll have to move the piles off the floor) I never quite reconciled how such a seemingly ordered mind could produce such a seemingly disordered world - and yet, he could tell you exactly where any particular item of interest was in any one of his many piles (even those on top of the large filing cabinet).

    la question mille francs - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • I have renewed the hose on my high pressure washer and vacuumed ny own car.

    It’s A Car Tyre – I Can Manage – Go Away! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • Apparently, it had been vacuumed away, never to be seen again.

    He's Come Undone Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • In the most glaring example that indicated the company didn't have a good grasp on what its workers were doing, Google acknowledged in May that one of its engineers had created a program that vacuumed up potentially sensitive personal information, including e-mails and passwords, from unsecured wireless networks while Google cars cruised neighborhoods around the world.

    Google Tightening Privacy Leash On Employees AP 2010

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