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cleanly

[klen-lee, kleen-lee] / ˈklɛn li, ˈklin li /
ADVERB
neat
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The physicists liked physical models, and economists liked linear models, so machine learning didn’t fit cleanly into either camp and was viewed with suspicion.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

It maps on pretty cleanly because a lot of the cases that people really like involve the court enforcing federal legislation.

From Slate Jul. 13, 2026

When he fielded it cleanly, Tucker shuffled back toward third base.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

So, important to get a good start and then try to get away cleanly into Turn One.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

The pastel yellow cube of our modern house sat cleanly on the white snow.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

It has a higher back than the domestic hog, and cleanlier habits; an odoriferous gland on the loins, and three-toed hind feet.

From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton

To this Gargantua answered, that he had taken such a course for that himself, that in all the country there was not to be found a cleanlier boy than he.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux

Sir, I Had rather like the first best; not onely because it is cleanlier, but because it reflects least upon the other party, which, in all jest and earnest, in this affair, I wish avoided.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne

Under the painful surface-blur of wretchedness and fatigued debauchery, she traced reflectively the lineaments of the younger and cleanlier countenance she had seen a few months before.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic

There are also, however, cleanlier families, in whose sleeping chamber the air is not so disgusting.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie

Their cleanliest monthly average is 54 tons of dirt to the square mile.

From Time Magazine Archive

The gentle Maldivians are among Asia's best-fed, cleanliest and healthiest people.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their churches and chapels are the best built, the finest adorned, and the cleanliest kept, of any churches in the world.

From Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid. by Lady Anne Harrison Fanshawe

She, that was the cleanliest creature in the world, never shrank now if you set a close-stool under her nose.

From History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

It forms one of the cleanliest and most beautiful shades, and when in blossom gives a rich prospect, and sends abroad a delicious fragrance.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck




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