strip
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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