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Meanings of abhor a vacuum in English

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Usage of abhor a vacuum in English
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Nature may abhor a vacuum, but academia does not.
The Guardian
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Players abhor a vacuum where apathy may lurk.
The Irish Times
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Bees do most unquestionably, " abhor a vacuum," if it is one which they can neither fill, warm nor defend.
Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee: A Bee Keeper's Manual
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Plato affirms, almost in so many words, that nature abhors a vacuum.
Timaeus
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Captain Phœbus's heart, like the physics of that day, abhorred a vacuum.
Notre-Dame de Paris
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Mr. Huxley writes: Mr. Darwin abhors mere speculation as nature abhors a vacuum.
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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The ancient law that nature abhors a vacuum holds true in the moral realm.
Levels of Living / Essays on Everyday Ideals
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If nature abhors a vacuum, then slang still more so.
The Guardian
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Nature will tolerate a paradox, but she abhors a vacuum.
The Robot Who Looked Like Me
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Venus is here, but younger sibling Serena is not, and Nature abhors a vacuum.
The Irish Times
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Mr. Darwin abhors mere speculation as nature abhors a vacuum.
Lectures and Essays
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Or that Nature abhors a vacuum, and how is it possible to do nothing?
Nerves and Common Sense
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Whoever coined the phrase "Nature abhors a vacuum" must have seen this place.
A knife edge
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In the meantime there is plenty of time for speculation and nature abhors a vacuum.
The Irish Times
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That nature that so abhors a vacuum must detest a sterile straight razor even more.
Gods go begging
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In politics, though, as much as in the realm of physics, nature abhors a vacuum.
Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
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