denuding

present participle of denude
as in stripping
to remove of all covering or surface layers Excessive logging has denuded the hillside of trees.

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  • Monster has debuted into this very fraught political moment where, despite no evidence showing a link between violence and transness, right-wingers have gone to great pains to paint almost every mass shooter who makes front page news as trans in hopes of stripping trans people of their rights.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • But stripping also taught me how to stand firm in the face of that.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • Her leadership was instrumental in scaling OpenAI from a research organization to one of the most important AI companies in the world.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That choice drives everything else, like the equipment design, energy requirements, scaling strategy, and economics.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • However, Arsenal’s 3-2 Women’s Super League (WSL) defeat by Manchester City over the weekend extended Arsenal’s winless run to three matches, dropping them to fifth in the WSL table and further exposing flaws in defensive solidity and execution in the final third.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Their job was to guide (and smuggle) me through the tribal areas of the country, exposing me to places where visitors, especially Americans, were officially forbidden.
    Kaitlin Stevens, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Denuding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denuding. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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