Thesaurus results for DEFOREST

deforest

verb

Definition of deforest

as in to skin

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Recent Examples of deforest These same governors have passed laws that effectively void the Soy Moratorium, a voluntary agreement that has contributed to a historically steep decline in deforestation by barring signatory companies from purchasing soy grown on land in the Amazon that was deforested after 2008. — Sarah Sax, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2025 About that time, Dorrell was biking up Mont Ventoux in the French Alps, where the top of the mountain has been deforested and looks like a moonscape. — Hank Tucker, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025 The company has committed to having 100 percent of its leather sourced from land not converted from a natural ecosystem or deforested for the grazing of cows, which will apply to European leather by 2025 and global sourcing by 2030. — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 31 Oct. 2024 Based on a study published in Nature Sustainability a few months ago, 1.4 million hectares (the equivalent of nine cities the size of Greater London) were deforested in 2015 to open space for pasture for cows to graze. — Simi Thambi, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024 That’s the lesson behind a study out this week in the Journal of Applied Ecology in which researchers assessed which worms, ants, and other invertebrates were wiggling their way through plots of soil that had been deforested, revegetated, or left natural. — Hannah Richter, science.org, 16 Aug. 2024 Reuters visited two orchards in July that an analysis of satellite images by U.S. nonprofit Climate Rights International showed were illegally deforested in Madero after 2015. — Reuters, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2024

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All the specimens were skinned first, and the team removed any excess flesh and internal organs.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026
Sanders, along with two of his daughters, skins the fish straightaway.

— Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2026

Definition of skin

Verb

Outside, the guards were often genial and chatty; inside, visitors were treated as objects of suspicion, barked at and insulted.

— Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
Days or weeks passed, but then the dog barked, the mail carrier tramped onto the porch, the mailbox clattered.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

Definition of bark

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Wang paired her platinum locks with a slinky little black dress from her own label, which bared her entire midsection.

— Hannah Malach, InStyle, 6 July 2026
The designer wore a skin-baring black dress featuring a black bandeau top and a black skirt with a single strap that wrapped around her neck.

— Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026

Definition of bare

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Regionally, the Iranian regime was at its weakest in decades, denuded of antiair defenses.

— Ned Temko, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2026
Although gulf fritillaries can denude passion vines of all foliage, the leaves quickly grow back, and fruit development is not affected.

— Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 6 Feb. 2026

Definition of denude

Verb

For homemade, combine ¾ cup sugar, ¾ cup water, ½ cup shelled and toasted pistachios and a pinch of salt in a saucepan.

— Gretchen McKay, Boston Herald, 8 July 2026
Despite a fragile ceasefire reached in October that paused the heaviest fighting between Israel and the Hamas militant group, Israel continues to carry out near daily strikes and shelling across the coastal enclave.

— Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026

Definition of shell

Verb

Yet there is something singularly unbecoming about a franchise as American as Superman (and its adjuncts) being willfully stripped of its patriotism and good cheer.

— Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 11 July 2026
The internet casually scrambles basic ideas of personhood, reframing people as commodities and stripping us for parts.

— Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 11 July 2026

Definition of strip

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To summarize, physical AI governance is an extension of operational and safety governance, and the boards best positioned are ones that import high-reliability-organization oversight practices rather than scaling up their AI ethics frameworks.

— Anjana Susarla, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
Skeptics doubt the model scales to studio budgets, and some top creators are rejecting Hollywood deals entirely, choosing to release original work directly on YouTube.

— Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

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