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cleaner

[klee-ner] / ˈkli nər /
NOUN
detergent
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“That means more competition, a cleaner and more reliable grid, and an opportunity to lower costs for everyone.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The money comes out cleaner on the other side.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

“We don’t have time now,” I said, because I was afraid her mother might not want me in her house, even though she was kind and I was a lot cleaner than I had been.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

Scented cleaners release terpenes when fragrance compounds evaporate from sprayed droplets or cleaned surfaces.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

“It is so common to have house cleaners, housekeepers ... but why isn’t there someone that you can rely on as a second set of hands to do anything you would do for your family?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

By the time Dyson married, had children, and became obsessed with improving the suction of vacuum cleaners in his early 30s, he had tired of having a boss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

For example, larger shares of dry cleaners and construction workers said they use AI on the job when compared to administrative assistants and data-entry clerks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

While the heavy-duty cleaners and scouring pad lifted the black from the white bathroom sink, Miss Patty Cake’s body was another story.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia




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