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[kleen] / klin /








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The gut-busting workouts imposed by Sumrall and Whitt centered on four lifts: power clean, bench, squat and dead lift.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“A lot of things to clean up but on the right track.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The endangered red panda, who arrived in Edinburgh in 2016, was given a clean bill of health and returned to his habitat.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

It does mean that you should make sure you clean your own backyard.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

My excuses to Jeff were pretty lame, too: I had to clean my room, move some plants, rake my grandparents’ yard … After a while, he stopped asking and did more things with Rich instead.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

Meanwhile, data centers are driving demand for new, sometimes cleaner, power generation, energy-efficiency, and other technologies that climate-tech VCs were always behind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Instead of his house, we were at a New Age event venue in a strip mall that also contains an apothecary, a dry cleaner, and a head shop.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Lyft also has a cleaner balance sheet with $900 million in total debt versus $23.5 billion for Uber,” Lemonides said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

"The reality is that America produces energy better and cleaner than anywhere else in the world, and our power plants should not be unfairly targeted," the head of the EPA, Lee Zeldin, said on Monday.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Upstairs you can hear the thud of the vacuum cleaner on Mrs. van D.’s beautiful and only rug.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

They also argued that trade union funding is the "cleanest money in politics" which is "heavily regulated".

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

"Hyperscalers had attracted much of that buying, while the supply chain remained one of the cleanest expressions of the belief that the AI capex machine would keep running at full throttle," he added.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

“What we’re doing today is saying we are committed to making sure that I-5 is one of the cleanest corridors in the country,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

The cleanest way to own the shortage is also the most direct way to own the licensing risk.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

I put on my cleanest dress and the pinafore, which I hung on a branch by the side of the house to dry after we did the washing on Sunday.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

In the coastal Gambian town of Tanji, Sirah Darboe-Manneh cleans fish next to a row of ice boxes laying empty because of relentless power cuts.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Volunteer Mitchel Reising cleans a pen occupied by elephant seals 3.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

So why are people so captivated by videos of hoarded homes, crime scene cleans and other extreme clear-outs?

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Benny Roman, who cleans at Times Square subway station, says he once encountered a man who threw a whole plate of food on the floor before him, then told him to clean it up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Baba sets up an IV with painkillers, but even so, I cry out and grip Dayah when he cleans and bandages my feet.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

He cleaned them and realized that the mark, which looked like it was from a pencil eraser, was in his own field of vision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Once they are cleaned by a conservation specialist, we expect to find out more about the identities and personal narratives of the people buried here.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

On the peninsula in Long Beach on Tuesday, several neighbors checked on one another as they cleaned up debris from the flooding and storm damage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Mr. El-Sayed cleaned up in Washtenaw County, home of the University of Michigan, while losing majority-black Detroit and working-class Macomb County.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The coastline was long, but there were so many small robots that they cleaned it in only a day.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

Something like a million people vote in this event every year, according to the daytime news segment that I caught at the dentist the other afternoon while getting a tooth cleaning.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

She recently gave a neighbor $2,000 for cleaning out her garage — a “generous thank-you,” she called it.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

They would also oversee the delivery of key services such as waste management, cleaning and early learning.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Tran demanded payment for a cleaning fee and allegedly ordered the women out of the vehicle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

She’s supposed to be cleaning the rooms, and I don’t want her to get in trouble.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy




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