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Recent Examples of devoid The medication has hallucinogenic effects that alter the perception of sight and sound and cause users to feel devoid from pain and out of control of their surroundings. Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2023 The restaurant’s menu is devoid not only of meat, cheese, eggs, caffeine, and sugar, but also of spicy and oily foods. Mary Holland, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2023 Low and steady, devoid of emotion or singsongy nature…most of us don't even want our leaders to sound like that anymore! Emily Leibert, Glamour, 29 Mar. 2023 Delle, devoid for so long from its intrinsic need for social interaction might be filling in the gaps by talking to himself. Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for devoid
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devoid
Adjective
  • This Promotion is void outside the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, and where prohibited.
    Vogue, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2025
  • His landscapes are muddy and void, prone to sudden invasion by disturbing strangers, including the giant whale carcass that arrives on a train at the beginning of his 1989 novel, The Melancholy of Resistance.
    Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Or for the wide swaths of empty seats in the upper deck that formed after the New York Giants put the game in a vice grip with a three-score lead late in the third quarter and put the Broncos on shutout watch.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The kitchen was empty, save for an enormous stockpot of broth, with chicken feet bobbing at the surface.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Where homes, buildings and fields once stood in the southern city of Rafah, there were now craters and barren wastelands.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Those who reached Spain were offered a place to rebuild their lives — on a small, barren island.
    Miquel Ros, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Devoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devoid. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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