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A spokesperson from Welsh Women's Aid said "this form of covert surveillance can strip away a person's sense of privacy and safety".

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

New producer Jimmy Miller helps strip the band down to its rawest, raunchiest essence on songs like “Sympathy for the Devil,” “Stray Cat Blues,” and “Street Fighting Man.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

It is found only in a narrow strip of sand dunes in southern Africa, where it burrows into the sand.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

But property owners have pushed back as the strip of land between buildings and the ocean has shrunk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

It forbade Germany to place soldiers in the Rhineland, a wide strip of unprotected German land that bordered France.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

His pictures, deemed subversive, were stripped from German museums, and he and his family fled to Switzerland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

The new 6th Street Bridge, hailed as a civic landmark just steps away, was promptly stripped of its wiring by vandals and now sits pitch black at night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Economists led by Shruti Mishra divided out consumption by household income, but importantly, stripped out the essentials of housing, utilities and healthcare.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

Some apartment blocks are stripped of their facades.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

I never in my life stripped a garden so fast, and my feet raced each other past the depot and the Cold Sassy tree and the nine houses between Grandpa’s house and ours.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Portland, Ore.: By preventing the stripping of fasteners, Henry Phillips’s design enabled the use of high-speed power tools essential for World War II-era assembly lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

The sound of pliers clicking filled a workshop in eastern China's Hangzhou as a group of women practised stripping wires, their female instructor moving around the classroom to offer advice.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued a warning that stripping private enforcement is on the table for this court.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 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

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

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 Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

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 Hall, Basil

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 Howard, J. J.

So, after three years of exercise, the right of signature was to be stript from Seraphina.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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 Llorente, Juan Antonio