empty set
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empty sets
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Some are empty, set up at the crack of dawn and then abandoned for hours on end, until the owners actually want to use them.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025
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 Briggs, the court found no substantial government justification, a veritable empty set to weigh against the unindicted individual’s interests.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2017
Notice that with mutually exclusive events, the intersection of and is the empty set.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
Remembering what had happened last time, I waited to see which empty set of chairs Elliot would choose.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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