hollow out
phrasal verb
hollowed out; hollowing out; hollows out
1
: to remove the inside of (something) : to make an empty space in (something)
The kids were hollowing out pumpkins.
a hollowed-out log
2
: to form (something) by digging or cutting the inside of something
Workers hollowed out a tunnel through the mountain.
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The office market has also suffered in the wake of the pandemic as remote work policies hollowed out office buildings, leaving some sectors within commercial real estate crumbling.
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Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,annie Nova,rebecca Picciotto,josephine Rozzelle,brian Schwartz,ece Yildirim, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024
Using a social realism that is all the more powerful for its restraint, Carreira avoids wild swings and contrived speeches, and trusts the audience to be swept up by a devastating performance of a woman being hollowed out from within by inhumane working conditions.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
With the resources of government increasingly overstretched and diminished, only corporate America can reverse the hollowing out of the middle class that now threatens our political and social stability.
—Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
But what is far more effective is when the top leader’s removal is paired with the systemic hollowing out of a movement’s organizational capacity.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 29 Sep. 2024
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Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,annie Nova,rebecca Picciotto,josephine Rozzelle,brian Schwartz,ece Yildirim, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024
Using a social realism that is all the more powerful for its restraint, Carreira avoids wild swings and contrived speeches, and trusts the audience to be swept up by a devastating performance of a woman being hollowed out from within by inhumane working conditions.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
With the resources of government increasingly overstretched and diminished, only corporate America can reverse the hollowing out of the middle class that now threatens our political and social stability.
—Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
But what is far more effective is when the top leader’s removal is paired with the systemic hollowing out of a movement’s organizational capacity.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Hollow out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hollow%20out. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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