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unswathing

verb

present participle of unswathe
as in stripping

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unswathing
  1. stripping
  2. baring
  3. exposing
Verb
  • Black Zombie uncovers the Haitian roots of the zombie, exposing how Western cinema transformed spiritual tradition into horror while stripping it of identity, agency, and history.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Even stripping out the distortion from last year’s water and car tax hike, the inflation rate for these energy intensive categories has actually fallen this year.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of stripping
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  • The star wore a cropped white, long-sleeve top that stopped just before her bump, baring her belly.
    — Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Tom Cruise is opening up – and baring a little skin – in a rare magazine interview.
    — Sameen Chaudhry, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of baring
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  • Alibaba alone accounted for more than 151 million Claude interactions, while Anthropic said Moonshot and DeepSeek sometimes routed their own users’ queries to Claude without their knowledge, potentially exposing sensitive information.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
  • For a financial transaction, that might mean exposing transaction state explicitly, requiring an idempotency key so the same instruction can’t execute twice, and separating the permission to prepare an order from the permission to submit it.
    — Barry Bernstein, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of exposing
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“Unswathing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unswathing. Accessed 21 Sep. 2026.

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