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strip

[strip] / strɪp /




VERB
remove clothes erotically
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The government says its changes will strip back bureaucracy and improve patient safety.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

The north London club have reprised their famous yellow for this season's third strip, with a kit reminiscent of away shirts worn by Arsenal players during the late 1980s.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

Users who have downloaded his app include a strip club owner, a Buddhist monk and parents.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

Recognizable by a subtle sparkly strip hidden inside a collar or on an aglet at the end of a drawstring cord, Cucinelli’s luxury clothing brand employs a muted palette of tans and grays.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

As Roz marched back, she cut through a strip of forest that separated the two farms.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

Beyond barring U.S. access, loss of a visa is widely viewed as raising suspicions about a politician’s character — a major reason, observers say, why few Mexican lawmakers acknowledge being stripped of visas.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

The collection includes the first carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars identified in the Magellanic Clouds as well as the first intermediate-mass stripped star.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

"The disinflation ducks are starting to line up, and with oil also backing off, the market has steadily stripped away the case for another near-term Fed hike."

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

Related: ‘Her bank accounts were stripped bare by Medicaid’: My late friend had $20,000 in credit-card debt.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

It’s as if the house has been stripped of all those little things that made it a home.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

These products emphasize “not stripping the skin barrier, not being too harsh—and then also combining the sensorial experience,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

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

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has returned Poland's highest honour after his Polish counterpart Karol Nawrocki said he was stripping him of the award.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

Energy prices are the main culprit, but even when stripping those out along with food costs, core CPI is expected to increase 2.9%.

From Barron's Jun. 8, 2026

Light crews like Nailer’s tore at the ship’s small fittings, stripping copper, brass, nickel, aluminum, and stainless steel.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

All in like efforts join'd: “And quickly Othrys of his woods was stript: “Nor Pelion shade retain'd.

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

Some quaintness of the vocabulary has been got rid of—some dialogue has been stript of its redundancy—some few thoughts have been added—and others retrenched.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various

Then he stript the cloth from his canteen, fastened the strand with bits of wire and made a fine coffee-pot of it.

From Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran by John McElroy

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 Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric

And when those boughs are all stript bare, By wint'ry storms o'ertaken, That faithful bird is still ling'ring there, Nor hath ever that spot forsaken.

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by George Yellott




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