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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hollow (out)
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After Hart shoveled the ball to Jalen Brunson, Andrew Nembhard stymied Brunson, causing the ball to go out of bounds and nearly forcing a turnover.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
31 May 2025 -
He's also noticed that workers often shovel coal in bouts, working hard in teams of two or three, and then all taking breaks together.—
Jonathan Lambert,
NPR,
18 May 2025
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Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Civil work has finished at six out of eight stations in Gujarat, while Mumbai's underground terminus at Bandra Kurla Complex is 75 percent excavated.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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In May, a team excavated the Senja site and identified it as a roughly 1,000-year-old Viking boat grave, the museum said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
4 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 10 Jun. 2025.
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