hollow
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"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
When researchers dissected the plants, they discovered that a species of predatory wasp was using the hollow chambers for an entirely different purpose.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
My cousin tells a story: Several years before I was born, she was sitting on our great-grandmother’s lap at her modest home in a hollow in Eastern Kentucky.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Even so, I knew that I couldn’t ever sit in Sunday school again without seeing that shriveled-up face and those hollow eyes.
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
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
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
Hungry Joe was a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone and twitching veins squirming subcutaneously in the blackened hollows behind his eyes like severed sections of snake.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
That promise, insincere from the start, looks hollower every day.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 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
His hair grayer and thinner than in his mugshot from five years ago, and his cheeks a little hollower, Cho, now 56, sat through the two-week trial in a gray pinstripe suit, mustard tie and glasses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2016
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
A week before the convention there came a provincial earthquake; the news passed from man to man in awe-struck whispers—McCune had withdrawn his name, making the hollowest of excuses to his cohorts.
From The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington
You can never call me that again, without feeling it the hollowest pretence!
From A Beautiful Alien by Julia Magruder
It was upon his return home that George Henry Harrison, well-to-do and content, learned something which for a time made him think this probably the hollowest of all the worlds which swing around the sun.
From The Wolf's Long Howl by Stanley Waterloo
The board found an industrial base that had been hollowed out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Earlier this month, Burnham promised to revitalise Britain's "hollowed out" high streets by helping councils block new vaping and betting shops.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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
"Wall cabinets, sofas, coffee tables, dining tables, and chairs vanished in an instant. It was as if the entire building had been hollowed out," Wang told the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
It was hollowed out well enough, but the exterior still looked like a lumpy tree.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Others, including Goldman’s Garrett, believe the hollowing out of the market is a risk worth monitoring.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
“There’s essentially a hollowing out of the middle,” said Jared Walczak, senior fellow at the Tax Foundation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Having promised to reverse what he called the "hollowing out" of the armed forces, the settlement Healey was offered on Monday was not enough for him.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
But opaque AI loans and excessive leverage — ‘credit termites’ — are hollowing out the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 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
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