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Garry Tan, CEO of the startup incubator Y Combinator, which helped create such companies as Airbnb and DoorDash, said, “San Francisco, to some extent, has gouged its own eyes out.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024

The charring and the hole it has gouged out of the frame were undoubtedly caused by the flame of a candle.

From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2021

The finally completed signing of Marlon King has gouged deep divisions in the support and only plenty of wins is going to soothe those morally offended.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2010

It has gouged ugly pits in multitudes of skins.

From Time Magazine Archive

August says she goes into the holes life has gouged out of us.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd