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strip

[strip] / strɪp /




VERB
remove clothes erotically
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The first one was finished in 1915, and it was one scary ride, crazy as a Mobius strip, with 697 curves in its 36 miles.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

Constant, standing on a striped rock, consists of two color patches; the rest is largely blue sea, topped by a light-gray strip of sky.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

Penn Station was a sea of Argentine jerseys, most emblazoned with Lionel Messi's name -- and two dogs were dressed up in the iconic blue and white strip.

From Barron's Jul. 19, 2026

Tucked away in a Sun Valley strip mall, El Compadre market and restaurant was a neighborhood staple, selling handmade tamales, carne asada tacos, fresh pan dulce and an array of products imported from Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Sewn to the left side of her jerkin -and those of Hord and Oslak -was their clan-creature skin: a strip of black feathers.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Half-year sales dipped three percent to 7.2 billion euros on a reported basis but once currency exchange rates and changes to the business are stripped out they edged one percent higher.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

Plans to simplify the classic logo and modernise store interiors sparked fierce resistance from loyal diners who argued the changes stripped away the brand's nostalgic Southern charm.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

After a Persian subterfuge stripped the Greeks of their leadership, it seemed to many of the Ten Thousand that the situation was hopeless.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Those Russell put options are now a cheaper hedge as some of the more volatile names have been stripped out.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

In a country that preaches the virtues of democracy, one could reasonably assume that being stripped of basic political rights would be treated by judges and court personnel as a serious matter indeed.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

It is supplying the constitutional context and stripping away the pretense courts so often cling to when they want to stay out of the fray.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

The power of that writing is let down by another plodding arrangement, stripping Abrams' words of their urgency.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Base fees, or what BlackRock collects from clients for managing their money, rose 8% from a year earlier when stripping out the impact of market moves.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

After stripping out votes by Palantir insiders and early investors, support surged to 56%, according to the filers’ calculations.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

He induced labor by stripping Mary Jane’s membranes at his office and, several hours later, Ed hustled her to the hospital.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

As you peruse you may find it difficult to believe that Macartney himself—James Adolphus, that remarkable solicitor—could have possessed a quivering, winged soul fit to be stript, and have hidden it so deep.

From Love and Lucy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

But an eel can only be once skinned in its life, and even the skin, stript from its writhing body, was supposed to possess a “virtue.”

From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by Walter, James Conway

Then stript his robe, exclaiming—“Here the breast “Still for your good employ'd.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

We say now, if any one had stolen his corpse, he would not have stript him, for theft loves no delay.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

The Apartments are large, but want Ornament, especially since they have been stript of their Furniture.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von




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