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
When she’d get home from a long day, she’d undress outside and sprint to the shower, worried about exposing her wife and two children to the coronavirus.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021
She helped Laura and Mary undress and button up their red flannel nightgowns.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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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
The letter’s flipped position within the word “bar” undresses the long-accepted expectation when a person wants to eat, drink and watch a game in a restaurant.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
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
“We wanted that level of intimacy in it. He metaphorically undresses himself as he shares more and more with the audience.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2017
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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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
Earlier in November, video went viral on social media capturing the moment the woman, named by BBC Persian as Ahoo Daryaei, undressed on a university campus before being forcibly detained.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2024
In die examination room, he told me to get undressed and put on a paper gown.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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
So Amyas went in, and found Frank laid on the outside of his bed not yet undrest.
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley
The Duke getting notice, came running undrest to lament his fate, saying, Alas, Sir! what is the matter?
From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie
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
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
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
The second goal came off a Vince Dunn turnover in his own end, with Marchessault later finding himself alone in front of Grubauer and undressing the goalie with some nifty deke moves.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
By the time I was undressing for the pelvic exam, I was nervous but hopeful.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2021
That evening as I was undressing, I removed the notes from my shirt pocket.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
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