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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

What he soon realized was that a tree thought to be in decent shape a year ago, was actually completely hollow and “on the edge of complete failure.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Lumpy close-out with hollow barrels with low tide, fam.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Some hollow core fibers can be filled with gases or liquids, allowing them to map temperature distributions or even function as tiny laboratories for chemical experiments.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

A vulture emerged from a hollow in the cliffs.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

Some create burrows in the ground, others use cavities in wood such as tree hollows or fallen branches, and some nest inside plant stems or small existing holes in twigs.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026

To avoid the merger trap of cutting so deep it hollows out the brand—the Kraft Heinz merger is the cautionary tale—management plans to plow $100 million of the savings back into marketing and innovation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 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

A nation that teaches fear as a civic virtue hollows itself out from within.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025

Frodo lay half in a dream, imagining that endless dark wings were sweeping by above him, and that on the wings rode pursuers that sought him in all the hollows of the hills.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

In Kong: Skull Island, he’s bigger—much bigger, so much so that he could stand eye-to-antenna with the Empire State Building without needing to scale it—but he’s hollower, too.

From Slate ● Mar. 9, 2017

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

"Myself, arch-traitor to myself; My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe, My clog whatever road I go."

From The Marriage of William Ashe by Mrs. Humphry Ward

I trust," said Monsieur Bonticu, in his hollowest death-room voice, "that Monsieur is satisfied.

From The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales by Richard Connell

The struggle between Prater's cat and Prater's cat's conscience was short, and ended in the hollowest of victories for the former.

From Tales of St. Austin's by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The board found an industrial base that had been hollowed out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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

Nokomis went over to Tallow’s place and pounded some of the corn to meal with the hollowed log and great round stick that Tallow kept in her yard.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

Global consumers benefited from cheaper goods, but at the expense of hollowing out local industries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

“There’s essentially a hollowing out of the middle,” said Jared Walczak, senior fellow at the Tax Foundation.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

This was supposed to set out details of defence spending to modernise the military and reverse what he had called "the hollowing out" of the armed forces.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

L.A.’s declining share of a contracting film and television industry is hollowing out its middle class, a group Pratt rarely talks about when homelessness is not at issue.

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026

So he dug and dug into the rising snow with the goal of hollowing out a snow cave, a place to weather the terrible storm.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el