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strip

[strip] / strɪp /




VERB
remove clothes erotically
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Former Los Angeles schools superintendent Austin Beutner is trying to stop proposed legislation that he says would allow officials to strip away voter-approved arts-education funding to schools.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

It is key to strip the land of any potential fuel before the fire has a chance to reach it.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Others, including businesses within the same strip mall, donated portable swamp coolers.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Organic sales—which strip out the effects of acquisitions and currency swings—fell 2% in fiscal 2026, and the company is guiding to another year of flat-to-declining sales.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

He rang the bell and waved, making sure she saw the strip of white gleaming around his wrist.

From "Rickshaw Girl" by Mitali Perkins

On Friday, it stripped its capacity growth expectations to be flat on year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

With Durban stripped of the rights to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games after failing to meet key milestones or provide financial guarantees, Birmingham stepped in.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

Half-year sales dipped three percent to 7.2 billion euros on a reported basis but once currency exchange rates and changes to the business are stripped out they edged one percent higher.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

Those Russell put options are now a cheaper hedge as some of the more volatile names have been stripped out.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

To keep East Germany weak economically, the Soviets stripped anything of value from their zone of occupation.

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

It is stripping away benefits that until now were included anytime you bought one of these tickets.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 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

After stripping out votes by Palantir insiders and early investors, support surged to 56%, according to the filers’ calculations.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

However, analysts worry that stripping Zelensky of the order may lead to a major diplomatic rupture that can have serious repercussions for both countries.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

It left them and turned fierce, stripping leaves from trees and pulling the dirt from ancient earthen walls.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

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 Howard, J. J.

The woods were stript of their verdure and the hills were half shrouded in mist. 

From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry

The Apartments are large, but want Ornament, especially since they have been stript of their Furniture.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

So proudly boasting, to submit I scorn'd; “But stript my sea-green robe, my arms oppos'd, “And held my firm-clench'd hands before my breast; “For stout resistance every limb prepar'd, “To meet the fight.

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

But, stript of the tracery with which it is so profusely covered, and the countless statues that nestle in its niches, it would be a withered, naked, and unsightly thing, like a tree in winter.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken




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