hollowed
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Head over heels in love with a man she met online, Helen's mother hollowed out a book and put £10,000 cash inside.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The board found an industrial base that had been hollowed out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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
The laboratory to which Mr. Loomis reported the next day was eighty feet underground, a place as big as a house, hollowed out of a mountainside of solid rock.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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