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noun

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as in ribbon
a long narrow piece of material now tear the paper into strips and fold them up carefully

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2
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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strip

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verb

ˈstrip How to pronounce strip (audio)
1
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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2
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
Noun
The team, currently 43-59, is temporarily playing at Sutter Health in West Sacramento ahead of the completion of the 33,000-capacity ballpark on the Las Vegas strip. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026 The vacuum’s lines are streamlined, with subtle, chamfered edges, and the base station features a sleek, square silhouette, frosted glass surfaces, and lighting strips to prevent it from being just another bulky home appliance. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 July 2026
Verb
Once the debris cleared, this team determined that the system contained a helium star, one of only a few thousand of these stripped stellar bodies to be discovered among the billions of stars that populate the Milky Way. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 July 2026 There’s something powerful—and, yes, stripped down—about seeing these politicians and newscasters without being able to hear their language. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for strip
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strip
  1. ribbon
  2. cartoon
  3. undress
  4. deprive
  5. comic strip
  6. disrobe
  7. comic
Noun
  • Communications with the chip that holds the qubits are handled by a superconducting ribbon cable.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026
  • The sky was alive with millions of fluttering shapes, congregating into clouds at random, occasionally turning into ribbons that wound through the trees.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
Definition of ribbon
Noun
  • Young people fluttered about, wearing custom white T-shirts emblazoned with the festival’s retro cartoon-style poster art.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
  • Each episode barrels forward with the logic of a live-action cartoon, hijacking the visual language of everything from My Dinner With Andre to Dog Day Afternoon, while cramming in references to pop culture, video games, and Canadian esoterica.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 July 2026
Definition of cartoon
Verb
  • Seven of the top nine image generation models freely available on Hugging Face allow people to digitally undress a person without their knowledge of consent, according to research by European nonprofit AI Forensics.
    — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • Upon further inspection, the officer allegedly found the USB contained images of state employees undressing.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
Definition of undress
Verb
  • So, the team tested if depriving mole-rats of smell would purge the xenophobia out of them.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026
  • Cover With Cardboard Another option is to cover lily of the valley with cardboard, which will deprive the plant of light and weaken its roots.
    — Helena Madden, Martha Stewart, 20 July 2026
Definition of deprive
Noun
  • The animation style is simple and stylized, like an old comic strip, with bold use of color and shadow that creates real atmosphere and danger.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 July 2026
  • More recently, one art critic compared a Harry Kane bronze statue to a comic strip character.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
Definition of comic strip
Verb
  • The game starts with a 60-second contest to disrobe mannequins decked out in layered bras.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 30 June 2026
  • With an increasing number of thrift stores closing dressing rooms (a move often made to discourage theft), some people disrobe right there in the open.
    — Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 22 June 2026
Definition of disrobe
Noun
  • Four years ago, the comic, a household name in the world’s fourth-most populous country, decided to start over in America.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 30 July 2026
  • This is so many different kinds of humor piled together, from callback to callout to laugh-at-him-not-with-him arrogant mistake to conscious, hyperbolic comic echoing to edgy provocation.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 28 July 2026
Definition of comic

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