hollow (out)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hollow (out)
Verb
  • The 41-year-old shoveled 70.5 hot dogs and buns into his mouth in just 10 minutes.
    Logan Holland, People.com, 4 July 2025
  • Carlyle shovels her walk and goes home, and the next day learns that Elizabeth Reuben committed suicide by leaving the gas on the night before.
    Benjamin Hale June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • In the 1920s, archaeologists excavating the necropolis of Deir el-Bahri near Luxor, Egypt, found many broken statues of the ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut—one of the civilization’s few female pharaohs.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
  • One of its recent big ‘splashes’ was the stunning recreation of a Roman villa within the estate, built after extensive Roman ruins were excavated.
    Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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“Hollow (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hollow%20%28out%29. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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