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denudes

verb

present tense third-person singular of denude
as in strips
to remove of all covering or surface layers Excessive logging has denuded the hillside of trees.

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  1. strips
  2. exposes
  3. scales
Verb
  • After the antler calcification process finishes, the velvet strips off.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The Euphoria actress strips down to just about nothing to promote Novig, a sports prediction market.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of strips
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  • This temporary crisis also exposes a broader concern, experts say.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Every executive now expects to interrogate data conversationally, which exposes every quality gap in real time.
    — Gopichand Mannava, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of exposes
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  • The cost of resolving each case scales alongside the growing volume of incidents.
    — Dave Glaser, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • To quantify this effect, the team modeled the drop as a conducting sphere hovering over a conducting wall, then calculated how the field strength scales with distance.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of scales
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