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as in streak
a line or long narrow section differing in color from the background the United States flag has seven red stripes

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verb

as in to streak
to make stripes on the children carefully striped the paper with red and blue paint

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Noun
Have some stars and stripes with your shake Steak ’n Shake can only hope its makeover goes better than Cracker Barrel’s. Robert Abitbol, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025 The classic Vans jazz stripe trades clean leather for frayed, multicolor tweed, a direct nod to Chanel’s signature fabric. Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
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Another pasta, striped like a candy cane, is filled with chicken from a farm at the city’s edge and strewn with local lemon balm, shiso, and cilantro. The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025 For an on-trend color combo, look to House of Noa’s Harlan couch, with its poppy- and maroon-striped fabric. Leonora Epstein, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stripe
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streak
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  • Lined up to the left of Mahomes outside of JuJu Smith-Schuster and Travis Kelce, Brown streaked across the field uncovered in part because Kelce drew multiple defenders and in part because of a key read of man defense.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
  • When Earth crosses paths with this point of a comet’s orbit, a meteor storm occurs, producing an outburst of meteors streaking across the sky.
    Gina Park, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Stripe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stripe. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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