as in to strip
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But at some closed park locations, services will be stripped to the bone, including no trash collection, restrooms, road or walkway maintenance or visitor information.—
Alana Wise,
NPR,
4 Oct. 2025 -
The next party leader could very well become the country’s next prime minister, but even that’s not guaranteed; voters delivered a clear rebuke in the past two parliamentary elections, delivering seats to opposition parties and stripping the LDP of its majority.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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Westmoreland—who also, to be fair, had a habit of not charging friends for many drinks at all—was evicted from the subway location in 2001.—
Ben McGrath,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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That was a remarkable turnaround from a player who appeared poised to be the first person evicted out of the house.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Sep. 2025
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This involves labeling people according to categories that deprive them of positive human qualities.—
Ron Barrett,
The Conversation,
2 Oct. 2025
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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday estimated that a shutdown could furlough roughly 750,000 federal workers each day, depriving them of about $400 million in wages daily.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Disfurnish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disfurnish. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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