empty set
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"I look insane when we shoot those scenes because ultimately I'm on an empty set talking and reacting to nothing. It's very much about imagination," she wrote.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2020
Carson Daly opens “The Voice” from an empty set, the trademark red judges’ chairs sitting like abandoned monuments, and refers vaguely to “Everything that’s been going on.”
From New York Times ● May 8, 2020
In a video shot for Vogue’s “73 Questions” feature, she wanders the rooms of what sometimes looks like an empty set, with a color palette ranging from white to off-white.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2020
Notice that with mutually exclusive events, the intersection of and is the empty set.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
They’d been lucky to find an empty set of seats near one of the doors.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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