hollow
Example Sentences
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The same platforms that amplify empathy also risk hollowing it out.
I was a Senate staffer when he arrived in Washington, and I watched him learn the institution without letting it hollow him out.
Abandoning a cult is relatively easy compared to unplugging from a hive; although deprogramming can be an arduous process, a hive mind hollows out everything but our skins.
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Strip mining used to at least throw a few hundred jobs at a county while it hollowed everything else out.
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In the 1990s, the neighborhood was further hollowed out, when rising crime spurred an exodus to the suburb of Richmond, which was soon being described as the most Chinese city in North America.
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