empty set
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Meanwhile the camera panned to an empty set.
From BBC • Aug. 12, 2021
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
But the set that contains the empty set is not empty.
From Scientific American • Jan. 31, 2014
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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