neatest

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He was apparently not the neatest of scientists, and the show riffs on other scientists who frown on his untidy habits.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2022

“My mother kept it for Amelia. She thought it was the neatest thing. It was never about that boy she wouldn’t even name,” Twiggs said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2022

And, here’s the neatest narrative trick of all: As Christie characteristically did, de Gramont hides the solution to the mystery of “The Christie Affair” in plain sight.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2022

The new study is “one of the neatest papers, ever” for revealing this overlooked anatomical feature, says Brock Fenton, a retired bat biologist and echolocation expert at the University of Western Ontario.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 26, 2022

Dawn was spreading her rosy fingers in the sky when Sean finished twenty of the smallest, neatest, most careful stitches his big fingers could manage, would ever manage.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby