strip
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Moreover, a monthly print isn’t self-explaining: Officials have to strip out special factors to get at the underlying trend, which is what Warsh said at Jackson Hole he was watching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
For more than seven decades, she helped millions strip away the veils of hierarchy, patriarchy and all the stories spun about gendered expectations to confront the actual experience of women’s lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
As they craft, artisans chant aloud the design code handwritten on a strip of paper known as talim -- shorthand of ancient symbols for numbers and colours -- knotting the threads string by string.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
He suggests experimenting using lightbulbs or strip lighting with different tones.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
“Her eyes are a little too much,” said Bridget, unfurling a boingy strip of hair.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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Smith was stripped of the captaincy and banned for a year by Cricket Australia, and broke down in tears as he apologised during a news conference at Sydney airport.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
In his suit, Filippi claims that Metrolink routinely replaces broken equipment with used parts from other trains, raising safety risks and putting stripped trains out of commission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Harry's grandmother Queen Elizabeth stripped them of their "Royal Highness" titles, police protection and public funding when they quit royal duties in 2020.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
The point is to notice that stuffing, stripped of its ceremonial duties, is an exceptionally forgiving way to turn bread and whatever else you have into dinner.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Kainene steered with a careless confidence, past potholes on the road, past palm trees stripped of fronds, past a thin soldier pulling along a thinner goat.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Forget the fines and suspensions, most hurtful to fans is the league stripping the Clippers of five first-round draft picks, from 2029 through 2033.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
In an interview with MarketWatch, Palfrey pointed out that S&P 500 earnings per share jumped 55% in the second quarter, or a still-impressive 35% when stripping out unrealized gains.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
A month into its chai overhaul, Starbucks relented ever so slightly, stripping out water to help make the hot drink creamier and spicier again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The findings suggest that drugs designed to target HSF1 could potentially reduce the thickness of the glycocalyx, stripping away some of the protection that allows cancer cells to avoid immune surveillance.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
I went straight to the sink and started stripping the onion.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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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 J. J. Howard
They said, surely we will return with thee unto thy people.—And she said—nay—I have nothing to offer you: I go back to my country stript of friends, and substance.
From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark
Jones—Now, my lord, we will give an account how she was when she was stript, and they came to view the body.
From State Trials Vol. 2 (of 2) Political and Social by Various
The Apartments are large, but want Ornament, especially since they have been stript of their Furniture.
The little Testament my sister gave me, I have kept when stript of every thing else.
From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark
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