cleanly
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This is not a win we get to keep cleanly.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
“Pulling in the language from the posting shows recruiters and hiring managers you’re a genuine fit for the role — and helps your resume read cleanly to an applicant-tracking system along the way.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Gas burns more cleanly than diesel, and it offered a means of complying with new regulations due to come into force on sooty pollutants, known as NOx and SOx.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Davis, who played center field all night, said the conditions made it difficult to field cleanly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
Each time I leap, I land a little more cleanly, a little more cavalierly.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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Nature would do that cleanlier; and waxwork more powerfully!
From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Maurice Henry Hewlett
There are also, however, cleanlier families, in whose sleeping chamber the air is not so disgusting.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
To this Gargantua answered, that he had taken such a course for that himself, that in all the country there was not to be found a cleanlier boy than he.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux
Under the painful surface-blur of wretchedness and fatigued debauchery, she traced reflectively the lineaments of the younger and cleanlier countenance she had seen a few months before.
From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
His hair and beard were freshly trimmed, and he had a cleanlier look than we have hitherto noticed; moreover, his expression had lost a little of its habitual sullen truculence.
From Till the Clock Stops by J. J. (John Joy) Bell
Their cleanliest monthly average is 54 tons of dirt to the square mile.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The gentle Maldivians are among Asia's best-fed, cleanliest and healthiest people.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This toilet was as elaborate and painstaking as that of the cleanliest of cats or squirrels.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
The sheep, the cleanliest of creatures, here made a symbol of those who have all their sins washed away in the fountain of redeeming mercy.
From New Tabernacle Sermons by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
I have grown to know that "Jones'" is the cleanliest place in the Excelsior village, and yet to our thinking it lacks perfection.
From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Marie Van Vorst
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