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bare

adjective as in without clothing

adjective as in without covering or content

adjective as in simple, unadorned

verb as in reveal

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The footnotes lay bare parties' red lines around the term "gender" -- some longstanding, others part of a rising right-wing tide opposed to so-called "wokeism."

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The group noted that Argentina accounts for a bare 2% of U.S. beef imports, meaning that even a significant expansion of the trade flow would do little to moderate prices.

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Her bare feet move in sequences that would put every TikTok dancer to shame.

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They bared their teeth into wolfish expressions, swiped at each other with pretend claws, made O-shaped howling mouths as if baying at the moon, and so on.

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The bare and lonely fact of it made her feel like a solitary stalk of grass left waving forlornly in a field after the thresher had come and harvested all the rest for hay.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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