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What makes something “clean” or “pristine,” then, isn’t actual clean lines or even a lack of clutter.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

Ronald Araujo was again immense and the Liverpool backline kept their fourth clean sheet in eight league games this season.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

They would no longer have to compete for supply with carbon-capture companies that sequester the gas underground and sell carbon-removal credits to heavy polluters, long a more profitable business than making clean fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

“Each trying to clean himself in the other’s dirt.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Ford turns to the room and says, “All right, everyone, clean up your area. It’s quiet reading time now. Come pick out your books, please.”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

"The key insight was to go back to the mathematics and ask whether there was a fundamentally cleaner way to retrieve spectra," said Dr. Chunhui Yao, a lead author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Teachers scooped up the stragglers and ushered them into the shelter's entrance, while the cleaner scanned the playground, muttering as she checked that no one had been left behind.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Compute futures would offer a cleaner way to bet on or against the AI boom by focusing on the rental prices companies would need to pay for the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

With three health workers and a hospital cleaner among those infected, questions have been asked as to whether the government could do more to protect workers.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The woman, who was older than Mom but younger than Macon and Lily, squirted a cleaner on the counter and wiped it with a yellow cloth.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

In risky therapeutic areas, the cleanest part of the trade is often the run-up to approval, when the main question is simply whether the FDA will say yes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

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

When Mrs. Zuckerman got through and rubbed him dry, he was the cleanest, prettiest pig you ever saw.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

"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

The Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians monitors water quality for algal blooms and cleans up spawning creeks that get clogged with sediment and trash.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Teeth cleans his whiskers, wipes his paws on his belly.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

Until approximately a decade ago, many dentists routinely cleaned implants with the same metal scalers used to remove deposits from natural teeth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 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

The bookish thriller "Verity" cleaned up in its North American box office debut this weekend while Tom Cruise flopped in "Digger" playing a rich old guy who thinks he can save the world.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

“Now,” Akira said when they were cleaned up, “where are we?”

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

When I pay a cleaning fee, I expect someone to handle the work of preparing a property for its next occupants: washing linens, scrubbing bathrooms, cleaning floors.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

Perhaps most irritating: the do-it-yourself cleanup is required on top of a hefty cleaning fee.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Regular professional cleaning remains the strongest known protection against peri-implantitis.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

The 77-year-old former teacher now shares videos about cooking, cleaning and homemaking skills on her Brunch with Babs accounts.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

“This schoolroom needs a thorough cleaning before our…company comes. Just look at those windows. And that kindling needs to be in a neat stack. And, Pearl, you’ll sweep the floor.”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck