strip
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They have happened in places near the strip of territory that is occupied by Israeli troops, and large numbers of residents have again been fleeing those areas.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Crew will often strip and recoat worn spots during port calls, something that likely wasn’t possible during the Lincoln’s many months at sea, Clark said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
For more than seven decades, she helped millions strip away the veils of hierarchy, patriarchy and all the stories spun about gendered expectations to confront the actual experience of women’s lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
As they craft, artisans chant aloud the design code handwritten on a strip of paper known as talim -- shorthand of ancient symbols for numbers and colours -- knotting the threads string by string.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
An arrow pointed them down a dirt road to a squat air traffic control tower next to a grass landing strip.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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Despite Harry and Meghan’s entreaties, they were stripped of royal patronages and honorary military titles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The point is to notice that stuffing, stripped of its ceremonial duties, is an exceptionally forgiving way to turn bread and whatever else you have into dinner.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Elissa and Johnnie say their "forever home" - now wrapped in scaffolding and stripped back to bare breeze block - has become a nightmare.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Messaging and settings would stay available but stripped down so teens cannot use them to reach the wider app.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The sheets on the old woman’s bed were stripped and replaced every Wednesday morning.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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The findings suggest that drugs designed to target HSF1 could potentially reduce the thickness of the glycocalyx, stripping away some of the protection that allows cancer cells to avoid immune surveillance.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
These products emphasize “not stripping the skin barrier, not being too harsh—and then also combining the sensorial experience,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Oscar-winning comedy The Full Monty depicted the lives of Sheffield steelworkers who were made redundant and turned to stripping at a club to earn a living.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
It is supplying the constitutional context and stripping away the pretense courts so often cling to when they want to stay out of the fray.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
In two seconds she’d be stripping the bed.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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The sad time is come; she is stript of her Wood,
From Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl by Caroline Cowles Richards
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 James Aitken Wylie
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 J. J. Howard
William and Charles Grant were the sons of a farmer in Inverness-shire, whom a sudden flood stript of every thing, even to the very soil which he tilled.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
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 Juan Antonio Llorente
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