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strip

[strip] / strɪp /




VERB
remove clothes erotically
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Founded by Rosa Porto, the bakery opened in a Silver Lake strip mall in 1976.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The lawsuit seeks to strip the men of their gains from their association with Epstein and ensure assets from the estate are distributed to victims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The strip format is a logical evolution, she added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

After sitting idle for months at a maintenance facility, it relocated in early July to waters off a strip of coastline known as the Kalma Peninsula.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

I tied a strip of fabric from her apron around the handle, and we set it on the mounded dirt.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

"We also stripped down to our pants quite a lot," Brydon told The Times.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The force of the water stripped the fjord’s walls down to bare rock.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

In the 1920s, lead paint was used, which must be stripped away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

In the city of Mardan, an AFP journalist saw a truck that had acted as a rallying point during the long march protests stripped of its images of Khan.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

He walked over to the stripped cot, which had been propped on its side and pushed out of the way.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Quarterly earnings came in at $3.37 a share, or $3.62 a share when stripping out one-time expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

These streams develop when the gravity of the surrounding host galaxy gradually pulls stars away from the globular cluster through a process called tidal stripping.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

One of the solutions he proposed was stripping the tour back to venues only local to Norfolk.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

There was no answer, just the sound of the rain and the wind stripping the trees, filling the air with ragged yellow leaves.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

And a long time afterwards the following event took place:—Palladius, having been dismissed from the military service, and stript of all that nourished his pride, retired into private life.

From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Charles Duke Yonge

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

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

He was declared infamous, incapable of obtaining dignities, stript of the habit and cross of his order, and banished from Madrid, Valladolid, and Toro, but was prohibited from quitting the kingdom.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente

Trained to no regular business, stript of all external dependence, he saw before him but a dark and misty wilderness, through which he must grope his way as he best could.

From I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by Azel Stevens Roe


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