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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
With the sentence stripped down to subject, moment and outcome, teams can go looking in places that have nothing to do with their product. — Duncan Wardle, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Councilmember Joe Zamora, who had served as the city’s mayor, was stripped of that title at Tuesday’s City Council meeting — a move multiple sources told The Times was allegedly motivated, at least in part, by his support for Valladares. — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 Borrowing from nature By reusing its body parts for dual roles, the design team stripped the robot down to just three actuators and three primary sensors. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026 The accused were sometimes seriously punished—stripped and whipped in a town square. — S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2026 There seems to be a larger movement looking for more stripped back, uncomplicated beauty routines—and perhaps this is why people are looking to Scandinavian culture, with its less is more approach to beauty as the answer. — Anita Bhagwandas, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2026 Castles and stately homes were blown up, towns put under siege and their walls razed, churches stripped. — Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026 At the same time, there’s an economic need to scale up data centers to facilitate the AI revolution, and that need has stripped the climate challenge of its sense of urgency. — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026 The result is a safer-phone category that already spans traditional feature phones, minimalist devices and smartphones that have been deliberately stripped of distracting features. — Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stripped
Adjective
  • On the 20th floor atop the tower with panoramic city views, is an open bare space.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The House's struggles in passing college sports legislation have been laid bare for more than a year with the failure of its own bill, known as the SCORE Act, which was considered far less friendly to athletes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Prosecutors said the woman was found Sunday naked and malnourished on a mat in the attic of a multifamily home on Summer Street.
    — Oscar Margain, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The Thai singer stunned in a bright red lingerie naked dress that bared her underwear.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 27 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Jordende Pierre, 29, was arrested Thursday in Malden, Massachusetts, after the woman was found earlier this month in the attic of an apartment building, undressed on a mat and lying near a bucket of urine, according to CNN affiliates WCVB and WFXT.
    — Alex Stambaugh, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • This deprived the state treasurer of huge assets that otherwise could have been invested to generate billions of dollars in revenue.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Declining natural gas exports have deprived Bolivia of dollars needed to import gasoline and diesel, contributing to chronic fuel shortages since 2023 that have persisted under Paz.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The end result would be a gassy surface shining as brightly as a more exposed black hole but with the Balmer break and smooth red hump of a 5,000-kelvin star, de Graaff and Naidu theorized.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Morgan Stanley said Equinix and Digital Realty are less exposed because their facilities average roughly 5 to 10 megawatts, far below the gigawatt-scale AI campuses planned by hyperscalers and neocloud operators.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Makeup was kept light and fresh, topped off with a nude lip, while her hair was parted down the middle, styled in face-framing waves.
    — Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The circumstances of his departure — the years of Chinese contacts, the nude pictures at the Fed — were not made public.
    — Eamon Javers, CNBC, 30 Sep. 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
  • In 2023, a federal audit flagged serious pesticide incidents in half a dozen counties and uncovered patchwork oversight by agricultural commissioners.
    — Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Moore added a pair of long passing touchdowns, one to an uncovered Dakorien Moore on a busted coverage, and another down the sideline to Stewart to complete a 28-point first quarter.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026

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“Stripped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stripped. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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