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noun

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1
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
Afterward, the Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition created test strips specifically for benzodiazepines. — Scott Maucione, NPR, 8 Aug. 2026 Jose Oliver, owner of Cantina Taco Grill, said his restaurant specializes in serving tacos with more upscale ingredients like New York strip and ribeye steak. — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
Never before has a coastal state been stripped of its rights in this way, and the politicization of the review process sets a troubling and far-reaching precedent. — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026 But Democrats on the Commerce Committee ultimately stripped out preemption of state AI laws originally in the Chatbot Act. — Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 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
  • The oversized ribbon tie closures are particularly charming—especially in a children’s room—and give the stripes a cottagecore slant compared with some of the more modern sets on this list.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The program also oversaw the completion of five new programs and community centers, which hosted ribbon-cutting ceremonies this spring.
    — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of ribbon
Noun
  • His north star was Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Robert Zemeckis’ 1988 classic that remains the gold standard of the cartoon hybrid form — and was told through the unexpected cinephilic lens of film noir.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026
  • That, of course, is exactly why those cartoons were impossibly great.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Aug. 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
  • That means that the people are deprived not only of their capacity to act, but also of their capacity to think and to judge.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The bipartisan legislation, which passed 86-11, would penalize countries that continue to buy Russian oil, gas and other exports seeking to deprive Putin of revenues fueling the war.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of deprive
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  • But the closest Fleming ever came to describing Bond outside the books was while working with cartoonist John McLusky in the late 1950s on a comic strip for the Daily Express.
    — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Unlike the James Whitcomb Riley poem, however, the comic strip’s target audience was not children.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 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
  • The Scottish comic continues to be managed by Rick Hughes at Off the Kerb.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of comic

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“Strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strip. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

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