hollow
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It’s also nostalgic in a way that finally seems imperative in today’s Hollywood that reeks of hollow, monetized sentimentality about its past.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
"During the initial search, we had examined the walls, checking for hollow spaces," said Sainte.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
"At a time when both international law and justice are under attack, when too many states attempt to hollow them out, her Nobel Peace Prize could not come at a better time," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The shoes are known for their clean design, lightweight feel and unmistakable soles, including some with those hollow pods that resemble a toothy smile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
With surprising speed, she hacked out a hollow just big enough to take herself and her pack, if she curled up small.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Bigger trees are also more likely to form hollows – a critical and declining habitat for rare species such as the greater glider and Leadbeater’s possum.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
Clutched in the hollows of our Turbo Premium Plus were 20-inch wheels wrapped around 45-series all-season tires, fresh from the oven.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
A nation that teaches fear as a civic virtue hollows itself out from within.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025
These include tree planting or the digging of dips and hollows into the landscape, but are often hampered because a large proportion of river catchments are on private land.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025
Molly blended the paint into the hollows of Anat’s cheeks, one hand holding back her hair.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
His assurances of restraint, dubious from the start, now ring hollower than ever.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 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
The pomp of kingship was to her the hollowest of all chimeras.
From Mrs. Fitz by J. C. Snaith
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
He laid his hand on my back, whereat I groaned my hollowest.
From Helmet of Navarre by Bertha Runkle
Just as sanctions hollowed out Iran’s defenses, they left the country’s economy brittle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said town centres had been "hollowed out" by decades of decline and "for many people, the high streets they grew up with have become unrecognisable".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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
Or a sadness so deep, like your very core has been hollowed out and fed back to you from a dirty bucket?
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
In a long career before his death in August, at the age of 92, the agrarian writer Wendell Berry argued that modern agriculture was decimating family farms, hollowing out rural communities and poisoning the planet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The cause of the commotion stands frozen and alert at the end of a hollowing log.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Other credit bureaus are noting a similar hollowing out of the middle.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 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
By evening, they began the time-consuming task of hollowing out and shaping the hard yellowish wood into a canoe.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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