clearing
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To the looksmaxxers, these peptides aren’t about health; they’re for shedding fat, building muscle, clearing up skin, and even getting tanned.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
They won in court, clearing the way for the L.A. water board to act.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Senators voted 86-12 to begin consideration of the bipartisan measure, clearing its first procedural hurdle but leaving further debate and a final vote still to come.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
In interviews with the Insolvency Service, Wagh admitted using the funds to pay off personal credit card debts and loans, saying she thought that by clearing her personal debts, she would be helping her businesses.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Theo shakes his head, as if clearing water from his ear.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
"We carried our own rice and slept on grass in clearings," he said in a 1998 interview.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
More federally mandated encampment clearings followed in the coming weeks, even as the city ramped up its own schedule of standard encampment clearings.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025
As asylum seekers and organizers braced for the clearing, the appointed hour came and went with no police presence or trucks to haul garbage, as homeless encampment clearings usually have.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Just beyond the southern shore there are old timber-company clearings which could someday be converted into trails that hikers can use to reach the adjacent Tahoe National Forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024
The woodland of Belorussia was so thick that there was hardly any place to use as an airfield, so the 46th Guards had to take off and land in forest clearings.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Of Mice and Men
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