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The prevalent use of gift registries would argue otherwise — but while they ensure that people get the stuff they want, they are devoid of any thought or sentiment.

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The Greenbelt store was devoid of customers Saturday afternoon save for a preteen boy and his mom browsing the orderly rows of games, most bearing “pre-owned” stickers.

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Nobody in their right mind would ever give a job to someone so completely devoid of the most rudimentary social skills.

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Rivers’s lack of championship rings will likely invoke comparisons to Fouts, Dan Marino and Warren Moon, three Hall of Fame quarterbacks that are also devoid of a Super Bowl win.

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They pointed the most powerful telescope in history, the Hubble Space Telescope, at a dark patch of sky devoid of known stars, gas, or galaxies.

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We can’t tie quality to a simple binary process devoid of context.

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Duke’s first four games this season were at home, played at a Cameron Indoor Stadium devoid of its Crazies and all other fans.

DUKE’S MIKE KRZYZEWSKI MAKES HIS CALL IN A PANDEMIC DILEMMA: SENDING PLAYERS HOME FOR BREAKMATT BONESTEELDECEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POST

They jeered and sounded mournful notes without promise, devoid even of hope.

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And being devoid of ambition, and striving not toward accomplishment, she drew satisfaction from the work in itself.

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Like his fellow Marshals, Macdonald hated the Spanish war, which was a war of posts, and devoid of glory.