stripped down

Example Sentences

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Sam Sacks highlights the author’s “rigorously achieved style, which is stripped down, dryly unsentimental and keenly attuned to the tensions present in families and friendships.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

The true magic of al limone shines when it’s stripped down to its essentials.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2025

Some smaller reforms do retain support at Holyrood and could be passed in a stripped down version of the bill.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

And if basic research is stripped down, streamlined, or tossed entirely in favor of “efficiency”? It will not just be scientists who will suffer—it will be all of us.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2024

She cut pipe and welded metal joints, installed shocks and stripped down engines—you name it.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols