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undress

[uhn-dres] / ʌnˈdrɛs /


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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

“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

“Like a metaphorical state of undress, they’ve let their head down and show are who they really are,” she said.

From Seattle Times Oct. 1, 2021

He gives me a hospital gown and tells me to go behind the screen and undress.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

“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

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

He undresses himself using a gadget Devon created from a basket, weights and hooks.

From Seattle Times Jan. 5, 2018

Yet as he realizes his fate, he gradually undresses, revealing his pajamas.

From New York Times Nov. 17, 2015

She starts taking out books and her computer from her bag before she even undresses.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi

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

Some 26 nurses signed a letter complaining of Rose's use of and conduct within the changing room, with Rose telling the tribunal the allegations, which included staring at women getting undressed, were "false".

From BBC Nov. 11, 2025

In the bathroom, I turned on the shower, but I didn’t get undressed right away.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

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

Falsehood more leisurely undrest, And, laying by her tawdry vest, Trick'd herself out in Truth's array, And 'cross the meadows tript away.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

Keep your undrest, familiar style for strangers, but respect your friend.

From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various

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

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

The witness recalled seeing the pair run down some steps to the riverbank before partially undressing and jumping in.

From BBC Nov. 23, 2021

While undressing her for bed, she discovered that her left leg had ballooned to twice the size of her right one.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2020

“They would stay dryer if I left them on and stayed out of the water,” said Cole as he began undressing.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen




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