in a vacuum en · ADP
Meanings
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Divorced from its proper context and therefore suffering from incomplete analysis.
Speaking at a UN general debate on the Middle East in New York, Guterres created fury when he said: “It is important to … recognise the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.”
2023 October 25, Patrick Wintour, quoting António Guterres, “Israel says it will ban UN staff after secretary general’s comments”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:He is fond of saying that "nothing happens in a vacuum", by which he means that external factors always matter in at least some ways; sometimes he exaggerates this principle by claiming polemically that "there are no coincidences".
Relateds
nature abhors a vacuum · horror vacui
Translations (1)
it fuori da un contesto (divorced from its proper context)