denudes

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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  • Organic sales — which strips out the impact of acquisitions, divestitures and foreign currency — increased 2% in the quarter.
    Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The suit argues firing workers during the shutdown is an abuse of power that strips federal employees of back-pay rights and violates agencies’ statutory duties.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • Although pumpkins that have started to turn color can ripen off the vine, leaving them in the garden exposes them to slugs, rot, or damage from a hard freeze.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Inclusion on a flagship list, like Rap Caviar, instantly exposes an artist to millions of potential listeners actively looking for new music.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
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  • And if the tech scales globally, millions of pregnancy tests, disease-detection strips, and farm-diagnostic kits could end their decades-long dependence on petroleum plastics.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
  • As Puck, the media company led by co-founder and editor-in-chief Jon Kelly, scales up with the acquisition of Air Mail, founder Graydon Carter is stepping back.
    Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Denudes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denudes. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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