stripper
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But in a world where global warming fixes can seem impossibly daunting, limiting methane pollution from stripper wells is the rare low-hanging fruit, Andrew Logan of Ceres, a climate advocacy group, told me.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
“If the news had called Cindy a mother instead of a stripper, then people and maybe even the police would be more concerned,” she told the paper.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
Daniel Brown, 35, has just bought a house in Skipton and is borrowing one of the library's most popular items, a wallpaper stripper, so he can decorate his new home.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025
To deal with any tenacious paint, use a liquid paint stripper, like CitriStrip.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
A Swiss Army knife with 13 attachments including a wire stripper and a saw and a toothpick and tweezers 2.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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"It started really with DIY items, wallpaper strippers, ladders, drills, your usual kind of thing. As I got further into my DIY, I started to borrow the mitre saw to do the skirting boards."
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025
Joe Kennedy famously said it was time to get out of the market when the shoeshine boy started giving stock tips; Michael Burry was worried about strippers and strawberry pickers with investment properties.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2025
The performers at Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood, California, are projected to become America’s only unionized strippers after their bosses withdrew their challenges to the union vote Tuesday.
From Washington Times ● May 17, 2023
Star Garden strippers filed a petition for a union election in August seeking to be represented by Actors’ Equity Assn., an established union that represents actors and stage managers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
The faro boxes were full of springs as a watch; faro decks were carefully cut "strippers."
From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson