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stripped

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verb

variants also stript
past tense of strip

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of stripped
Verb
Roughly 40 miles northwest of Charlotte, in a spanking-clean body shop off a two-lane country road sits one of Hollywood’s most famous cars, stripped to its essence. Joe Marusak august 8, Charlotte Observer, 8 Aug. 2026 Legal avenue opens up The revocation of the special-use permit stripped the facility of its ability to hold immigrants. Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 7 Aug. 2026 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 Piker has frequently dismissed criticism of his rhetoric as bad-faith attacks and says many of the clips circulating online are stripped of context. Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2026 Which ones hold a copy with the identifying fields already stripped out? Michael Leone, Forbes.com, 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 Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2026 The claim of a link stems from an unethical, fraudulent study that was retracted years ago, and its author was stripped of his medical license. Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026 Prosecutors allege Williams and several other suspects held a victim against his will, pistol whipped him and stripped him of his belongings, Boyd said. Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stripped
Adjective
  • Instead of feet of snow covering the landscape, mountaintops remained bare.
    Bloomberg, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The opposite coast felt like the bare minimum required to outrun what happened to me — the accident that almost killed me; the way everyone in Irvine looked at me after, like I was made of glass and might shatter without warning.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Compared to Chalamet, another leading man with great range but more naked ambition than Pattinson, the British star’s self-effacing personality comes across as more endearing, Weekman believes.
    David Mack, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • There was Adriana de Moura’s method in the Hamptons, which entailed getting naked in a bathtub to mark her territory.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Dever said the women did not believe their coach’s intent was to record them getting undressed, but rather to spy on their discussion.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2026
  • The woman woke up the next morning partially undressed at a home in the 11100 block of Spathis Drive in Palos hills, police said.
    Todd Feurer, CBS News, 28 May 2026
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 collapse of the Soviet Union deprived the country of subsidized fuel and other economic assistance, revealing deep structural weaknesses in the North Korean economy.
    Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The fact that my life is so exposed is incredibly complex for me.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026
  • What information the Paidwork leak reportedly exposed The exposed information appears to reach far beyond email addresses.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Storer, a resident of Lahaina, allegedly was nude and beat Michael Dyer to death with a 5-gallon water bottle.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Law enforcement tied Conahan to Montgomery through a police report filed in Fort Myers by Stanley Burden, who claimed to have been assaulted after being offered $150 to pose nude while tied to a tree in 1994.
    CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Purchase pre-peeled garlic cloves in bulk or peel the garlic cloves yourself using the flat side of a large knife to mash them slightly and then peel off the skins.
    Jenavieve Christensen, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Use pre-peeled carrots or bagged baby carrots to save prep time.
    Renu Dhar, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • There, too, cafés have been pressured to refuse to serve uncovered women, a young woman who recently traveled there told me.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
  • But most wrecks of slave ships remain uncovered on the coast.
    Amara Evering, Miami Herald, 11 July 2026

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“Stripped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stripped. Accessed 14 Aug. 2026.

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