hollow
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“Lumpy close-out with hollow barrels with low tide, fam.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
To support Henry Bacon’s Parthenon-like building and Daniel Chester French’s colossal statue, builders had to sink 122 hollow steel cylinders deep into the marshy soil to reach bedrock, then fill each pillar with concrete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
It’s a hollow provocation over a royalty-free riddim.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Researchers have created a hollow CdS@polydopamine nanoreactor that imitates two important features of living cells.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
“I did the town and the hollow, you and Jeb covered the Peeveys and the Cuthberts. Oh, we haven’t seen Uncle Alf Dee.”
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
“There is no societal permission for an AI future that hollows out entire industries,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Instead, they appeared along the sides of the ridges and within the sandy hollows between them.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2026
The second species is the ring-tailed glider, and just like its Australian cousin the greater glider, it lives in the hollows of tall trees.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
Abandoning a cult is relatively easy compared to unplugging from a hive; although deprogramming can be an arduous process, a hive mind hollows out everything but our skins.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2025
A thunderous echo rumbled back from the surrounding hollows.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
That promise, insincere from the start, looks hollower every day.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2025
It’s hollower than a tweet asking for thoughts and prayers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
Were the words that the cast spoke and sung hollower than they’d been 2½ weeks ago?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2022
Itgen isn’t sure why larger genomes lead to hollower hearts.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 2, 2022
Then the clicking of its spikes against the stone suddenly turned into a deeper, hollower sound.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
In a world sorely lacking global leadership, champions of human rights stand poised to earn only the hollowest of victories.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2018
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey was nominated for the presidential race, but it was the hollowest of victories.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 27, 2018
Folk had picked one or the other to win freakishly—on hunches of all sorts, tips of all manners, pure fancy, or “inside information” of the hollowest sort.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various
But diplomacy had failed, and it would have been the hollowest pretense to maintain relations.
From World's War Events, Vol. II by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
His usurpation had neither law, morality, justice, nor reason—nor even that hollowest of all mockeries, expediency—to rest upon.
From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket
Once a byword for joyful excess, Havana has been hollowed by blackouts, departures and deep uncertainty about its future.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Second, it hollowed out Congress’ power to enforce our constitutional promise of racial equality at the polls, insisting that Congress lacked the power to do more than prohibit purposeful racial discrimination.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
What's unique about the east of Germany today is that these birth rates are happening within a population that was so recently – and so rapidly – hollowed out.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Review panels at the FDA have been hollowed out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
His cheeks are so hollowed and pitted, he looks like he subsists entirely on turnips.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
“There’s essentially a hollowing out of the middle,” said Jared Walczak, senior fellow at the Tax Foundation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The hollowing out of military veterans from the government, particularly those with the most experience, only increases the importance of defense contractors who are following appropriate procedure.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2026
Automation had been hollowing out middle-skill work since the early 2000s, quietly eliminating the clerical roles, bookkeeping jobs and sales positions that once absorbed India's graduates.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
“I expect a hollowing out of the middle,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
I woke up and my stomach was screaming, hollowing itself out under my little chest.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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