strip
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Former Los Angeles schools superintendent Austin Beutner is trying to stop proposed legislation that he says would allow officials to strip away voter-approved arts-education funding to schools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Sledge is attentive to those around him who preserve discipline, decency and humanity when war threatens to strip all three away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Penn Station was a sea of Argentine jerseys, most emblazoned with Lionel Messi's name -- and two dogs were dressed up in the iconic blue and white strip.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Tucked away in a Sun Valley strip mall, El Compadre market and restaurant was a neighborhood staple, selling handmade tamales, carne asada tacos, fresh pan dulce and an array of products imported from Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Place a strip of double-sided tape around inside of the roll on the tail end.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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Half-year sales dipped three percent to 7.2 billion euros on a reported basis but once currency exchange rates and changes to the business are stripped out they edged one percent higher.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
A firebreak is essentially a stretch of land that has been stripped of all vegetation to stop the fire from spreading.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Those Russell put options are now a cheaper hedge as some of the more volatile names have been stripped out.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
When everything else is stripped away, that alone typifies Martin’s failure of leadership.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
I want to think it again now, but I have been stripped of all certainty.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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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
It is stripping away benefits that until now were included anytime you bought one of these tickets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has returned Poland's highest honour after his Polish counterpart Karol Nawrocki said he was stripping him of the award.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
After stripping out votes by Palantir insiders and early investors, support surged to 56%, according to the filers’ calculations.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
In two seconds she’d be stripping the bed.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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They were beating it also with stript branches, making night radiant with a thousand sparks.
From Captain Desmond, V.C. by Diver, Maud
But when we are shown the mystic way that leads to schoolrooms, we find them stript, as it were, for service.
From The Story of a Life by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)
Then stript his robe, exclaiming—“Here the breast “Still for your good employ'd.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
So proudly boasting, to submit I scorn'd; “But stript my sea-green robe, my arms oppos'd, “And held my firm-clench'd hands before my breast; “For stout resistance every limb prepar'd, “To meet the fight.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
But an eel can only be once skinned in its life, and even the skin, stript from its writhing body, was supposed to possess a “virtue.”
From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by Walter, James Conway
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