hollow
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“What we are working toward is not a rejection of multilateralism, but putting clarity and results over inefficiency and hollow words,” a senior State Department official, Michael G. DeSombre, told the U.N.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
The British government's response "needs to be more than words" as they "ring rather hollow".
From BBC • May 21, 2026
A constitutional right to alternatives is hollow without alternatives for judges to choose from.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
Despite Evy’s mother growing less responsive each day, the house’s quiet feels deafening — the distinctly hollow sound of silence filling the place where life should be.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
Skunks can make many places their home—abandoned burrows constructed by other animals, a hollow log, even underneath your house!
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
Vocabulary lists containing hollow
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 5
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The New SAT: Words to Capture Tone
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Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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