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as in cartoon
a series of drawings that tell a story or part of a story
a cartoonist who uses his daily strip to make his political points
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as in to undress
to remove clothing from
the nurse told the nervous mother to strip her screaming baby down to his diaper for the exam
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as in to deprive
to take something away from
an indiscretion that resulted in her being stripped of her authority
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Recent Examples of strip
Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 13 July 2025
Even the standard suites start at a palatial 1,130 square feet in size, with soaking tubs from private terraces or balconies offering ocean views of a tranquil strip of sand.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2025
Julia Teti, Footwear News, 10 July 2025
Sellers delivers one of the most precise performances in film history — not by adding layers, but by stripping everything away.
—arkansasonline.com, 10 July 2025
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Noun
Strung taut between a wooden pole and her waist, red and white threads stretch to form a long strip of cloth with a striped pattern.
—Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 13 July 2025
Even the standard suites start at a palatial 1,130 square feet in size, with soaking tubs from private terraces or balconies offering ocean views of a tranquil strip of sand.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2025
Verb
While the original design featured a suited shirt, tie and waistcoat, Garner stripped the look back with sheer fabric and a soft gray peekaboo bra layering element.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 10 July 2025
Sellers delivers one of the most precise performances in film history — not by adding layers, but by stripping everything away.
—arkansasonline.com, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for strip
Noun
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Twinkly lights and ribbons lined the airplane's interior when Meli and Power stood at the front of the cabin to exchange vows.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
18 July 2025
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The establishments, Casper’s Bistro and The Shop Goodlettsville, held a joint ribbon cutting July 9.—
Katie Nixon,
The Tennessean,
18 July 2025
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Ben, now 24, was schooled from an early age in classic Disney cartoons from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s, thanks to the great Disney Treasures DVD sets.—
Carole Horst,
Variety,
16 July 2025
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The cartoon highlights, the wavering white outline, the numbers—these were the visible sign of the machine’s digestion of my human features into a code, a set of coordinates, a faceprint.—
Michael W. Clune,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
Verb
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Things escalated, and soon enough Jane was undressing and having intercourse with Don.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
6 June 2025
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Finishing their routine without severing any limbs would have been enough to earn them four yeses, but the fact that the brothers managed to undress and put on each other’s clothes, all while keeping the knives in the air, pushed things over the edge.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
3 June 2025
Verb
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The indictment alleged Hankison deprived Taylor of the right to be free from unreasonable seizures and deprived her neighbors of the right to be free from the deprivation of liberty without due process of law.—
Tesfaye Negussie,
ABC News,
17 July 2025
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The lawsuit accuses Colorado of depriving Nebraska of as much as 1.3 million acre-feet (about 160,350 hectare-meters) of water from the river over several years that Nebraska is entitled to under a 1923 compact between the states.—
Margery A. Beck,
Denver Post,
16 July 2025
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The once notoriously secretive Ministry of State Security now commands a massive following on Chinese social media, with near-daily commentaries, short videos or even comic strips sounding the alarm about supposedly ubiquitous threats to the country.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN Money,
2 May 2025
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Save your comic strip, and create another one next year and others in years to come.—
Laura Broadwell,
Parents,
1 May 2025
Verb
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Indeed, some female swimmers chose to undress in the janitor’s closet to avoid disrobing in front of Thomas and seeing his intact male genitalia.—
The Editors,
National Review,
3 July 2025
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In today’s era of OnlyFans and rampant individualism, those values can seem prim or quaint, particularly for younger people who don’t want to disrobe alongside people from their parents’ or grandparents’ generation.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
19 June 2025
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Effects around them — a stream of water, a blast of magic, a foggy cloud — are 2D, and their environments are shaded and colored to look like the setting of a comic.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
16 July 2025
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Proceeds from the sales of the comic will be put toward the Armstead Academic Project, Armstead’s nonprofit initiative launched in 2019 to promote student success.—
Olivia Cyrus
July 12,
Sacbee.com,
12 July 2025
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“Strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strip. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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