strip
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Tyler Perry Studios boasts a replica of the White House, an airport terminal, two baseball fields, a strip mall, a residential neighborhood, and a golf course.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
They’ve popped up in barns and on farms, in strip malls between an antique shop and an ax-throwing business and in churches, where lighting and sound for worship services is part of the curriculum.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Police cleared the event, held upstairs at the strip mall, and removed more than 100 attendees one by one, according to OnScene Media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The attempt to strip a building from its rightful owner was a pure assertion of power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
He stared at a small strip of yellow awning that was visible along the trunk of the tree.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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Drakeford said "the time has come" to think about abolishing the department, which was largely stripped of its powers when devolution began in 1999.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
First, they presented the tissue with dying cells that had been stripped of E-cadherin.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026
Three plays into that against-all-odds drive, the Seahawks stripped the ball from Justin Herbert, recovered the fumble and ran out the clock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
In the new version, stripped of detours and detail, the same period occupies only a few pages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Lickety-split, a boy hurtled to the pond, stripped to his underwear, and leaped into the water.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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Crenshaw dominated early, Caden Baker stripping the ball from Odebunmi near midfield on Cleveland’s first possession and scoring on the 50-yard fumble return.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 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
The stripping of that status meant that holders can no longer legally work in the US and are at risk of deportation.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 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
In two seconds she’d be stripping the bed.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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They took our hands and helped us over the slippery stones on the beach; and, on perceiving one of the boats aground, several of them stript and jumped into the water to push her off.
From Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Basil Hall
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
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
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
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
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