undress
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“I think we achieved it, but along the way, we had to undress the character’s successes and failures, many of which had consequences in his life,” Gómez Fernandez says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
They further claim that, once in the home, the men were told to undress in the kitchen, and then to warm their hands with hot water or on a radiator.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024
The military said it makes detainees undress to search for explosives, bringing detainees into Israel before releasing them back into Gaza if they’re deemed innocent.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
“I had to undress to my underwear for a short period, it was very uncomfortable. They did not want to let me use the bathroom, for example.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2023
I undress and lower myself into the silky water—my mother has poured in some kind of oil as well—and try to get a grip on things.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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“Part of what the motion does is it undresses what you’re in, so it forces your hand a little bit,” McDermott said.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
It’s only when Agnes undresses that persona — in a calculated and tense final scene reminiscent of the imbroglio in the recent piece “Bad Art Friend” — that the narrator can see her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
Now, he pulls straight into the garage, undresses there, stuffs his uniform into the washing machine, disinfects his equipment and then heads straight for the shower before touching anyone.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2020
Behind the curtain of biography, betrayal and striving, “Fosse/Verdon” undresses into a story about haunted people, a pair of artists inexorably pushed by past abuses and the fear of failure they produced.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2019
She starts taking out books and her computer from her bag before she even undresses.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
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Microsoft's best known AI tool is CoPilot, while xAI's only AI product in Grok, a chatbot that has come under widespread public scrutiny for issues were it undressed people in images.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
A nurse asks me to get undressed from the waist up and put on a gown with the opening in front.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
Of course, the suggestion was unserious but it usefully if frontally undressed a reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
"We will carefully assess these changes to make sure they effectively protect citizens in the EU," European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier said in a statement, which followed sharp criticism over the nonconsensual undressed images.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
Whether anybody could prove that Maxim went straight up to bed and undressed.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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Keep your undrest, familiar style For strangers, but respect your friend, Her most, whose matrimonial smile Is and asks honour without end.
From Angel in the House by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
I have undrest myself, and Sibby is going to comb my hair.
From Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782 by Lucinda Lee Orr
In our Chamber, found her alreadie half undrest, a reading of her Bible; sayd, "Father tooke your briefe Good-nighte amisse."
From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Anne Manning
The chief was eating an undrest onion, and seated on an old table, dangling his legs underneath, with a vacant thoughtlessness of manner, which their abrupt intrusion somewhat dissipated.
From Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa by Robert Huish
Tho' sometimes rude, unpolish'd and undrest His Sentence flows, more careless than the rest.
From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Samuel Cobb
Patients may also feel distressed about undressing and undergoing manual therapy with a provider they don’t fully trust, which can make it hard to make progress.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
She said she felt "uncomfortable and embarrassed" with the idea of undressing in front of Dr Upton and stepped back out into the hall.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2025
Rapp testified at a deposition that there was no kissing, no undressing, no reaching under clothes and no sexualized statements or innuendo during an encounter that lasted no more than two minutes, the judge said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2022
Arians said after the game that wide receiver Antonio Brown is "no longer a Buc" after undressing on the field before storming off to the locker room during the third quarter.
From Fox News ● Jan. 2, 2022
What hunters call dressing an animal is really an undressing.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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