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[kleen] / klin /








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“Four weeks ago, my doctor gave me a clean bill of health,” one man said.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

Yet 16% mentioned missing governance and risk frameworks, while 15% cited data that was not sufficiently clean or standardized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

The EU has stressed that electrification must be "clean", which could spark debate over the role of oil, gas and coal in the Turkish proposal.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

It was largely the reason behind the positive start to the season despite failing to keep a clean sheet against top-flight opposition until Alonso's eighth game in charge.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Grandpa said one coin could buy a man a clean shave and travel gear.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Promise Knight, the council's cabinet member for cleaner streets, transport and public realm, said School Streets existed in the borough "to make the journey to and from school safer for children and families".

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Rowlands and his wife both take on a share of cleaning the holiday let, as well as employing a cleaner, but they only employ them part-time to keep costs down.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Once a luxury reserved for the ultrawealthy, these operations-minded professionals—a hybrid of cleaner, planner and household organizer—have seen rising demand from middle- and upper-middle-class families looking to run their homes like corporations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

South of Johannesburg, Soweto looks marginally cleaner than Alexandra, but residents also complain about service delivery.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

It would have been better, cleaner, if she’d finished letting down her hair so she could get a proper bite.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

"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

He said the property had not been the cleanest his team had encountered, but cockroaches could thrive anywhere there had been a food source, including abandoned food.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

Korea remains one of the cleanest gauges of AI hardware risk appetite, and the signal is clear: AI dip buyers are still here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The children sit at his feet in their cleanest clothes.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

On Aug. 6, he had been at his job with 2nd Call, which resolves gang conflicts and cleans up neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

"In simple terms, the lymphatic system helps keep your body's fluid levels balanced, cleans up waste, and supports your defences against illness," says van Tulleken.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

But she knew too the spiritual value of bodily rigidity, of muscle strain: a little pain cleans out the mind, she’d say.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Johnson lamented what he called poor officiating after the game but also told his team that the errors needed to be cleaned up by next week’s playoff opener.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

The lawmaker, elected in 2019, grew up in a modest family in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, where his mother cleaned homes and his father collected bus fares for a living.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

She cooked, cleaned, cared for her family and appeared to have discovered several additional hours in the day in which to accomplish it all.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

It has released several videos showing the Saudi Hospital and the Teaching Hospital re-opened, cleaned up and seeing some patients.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

But they started giggling when they cleaned up my potty corner.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

In high school, he worked nights as a janitor in his father’s law office and, after cleaning up, he snooped through the case files.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

In China and other East Asian countries especially, robots are an increasingly common sight, shuttling food to customers in chain restaurants and taking on other jobs from cleaning to greeting hotel guests.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

During a recent stay in Stafford, she paid a £35 cleaning fee but was still asked to strip the beds, put on a wash, empty bins and carry rubbish to a recycling area.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Grose said Lurie won immediate support and high marks among both moderates and progressives by cleaning streets and moving people indoors while also working on longer-term problem-solving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

In a matter of seconds, Mr. Garner went back to his sports section and Mrs. Garner started cleaning up and Freddy and Teddy started fighting over the last Pop-Tart in the box.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova


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