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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hollowing (out)
Verb
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The city is leaning on the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to require Ford to cover the cost of fully excavating and restoring the site itself.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
8 Mar. 2026 -
Lam makes machines that Micron uses to make its wafers, adding and excavating material an atom at a time to carve the intricate architecture of a microchip.—
Mark Dee
March 3,
Idaho Statesman,
3 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Bobby Chang and Reese Hornstein spent Thursday afternoon shoveling out their car in Southie.—
Logan Hall,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2026
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Josh Estrella, a spokesman for Mayor Brett Smiley, said that plans to pay nonprofits to organize volunteer shoveling efforts are also in the works.—
Antonia Noori Farzan,
The Providence Journal,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Hollowing (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hollowing%20%28out%29. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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