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hol·lowed out

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hollowed out in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hollowed out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of hollowed out in a Sentence

  1. Paul Ryan:

    That’s what this appropriations bill is all about. Making sure that (the Pentagon) uses this for readiness. Uses this for training the military has been hollowed-out over the last eight years and this budget agreement that we are putting together fixes that.

  2. Chairman Jim Clifton:

    When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth -- the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real -- then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't ‘feeling’ something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.

  3. Friday Barron:

    De Blasio and his progressive ascendancy have essentially hollowed out what was a prosperous and safe city.

  4. Elizabeth Warren:

    America's middle class is being hollowed out and the working families and poor people are being left behind, what we need to talk about, though, is why that has happened. And the answer is we've got a government that works great for those with money and doesn't work for much of anyone else.

  5. Marie Yovanovitch:

    Today, we see the State Department attacked and hollowed out from within. State Department leadership, with Congress, needs to take action now to defend this great institution, and its thousands of loyal and effective employees.

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