- present participle of empty.
emptying
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By measuring how much of the drug appeared in the bloodstream after oral administration, they could estimate the rate of gastric emptying.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Indonesian authorities raided a prison outside Jakarta Wednesday where inmates have allegedly been paying to live in luxury, emptying several "villas" of furniture, bottles of alcohol and at least one big-screen TV.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Dr. Nidhi Kansal, an obesity-medicine doctor at Northwestern Medicine who wasn’t involved in the research, said that amylin works similarly to GLP-1 by slowing stomach emptying and can therefore still come with similar side effects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
"The weather had been wet and there was a problem with mixing the slurry and emptying the slurry before the cattle came in - it was quite a stressful situation," she told BBC Cymru Fyw.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The waitress comes to take our empty bowls and plates away but doesn’t shoo us out of the emptying restaurant.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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