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cleanup

[kleen-uhp] / ˈklinˌʌp /








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The state’s 2023 brownfield law offers liability protections to developers once an approved cleanup site is restored.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Phillies have upended a century of baseball lineup wisdom by putting their slugger in the leadoff spot and batting their contact hitter cleanup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

It has obtained other findings critical of the cleanup through Freedom of Information Act requests and other whistleblowers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

If there’s a cleanup somewhere else, they’ll move across the street.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

At night, hours later, the cleanup men would arrive with brooms and hoses.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

Its members were involved in wildfire cleanups and removing waste from the hazardous Lineage warehouse fire in Boyle Heights in June.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

But as the debate over the division of housework rages, many argue that Japanese fans' signature stadium cleanups should be encouraged, not nitpicked at.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

Such cleanups appear to have influenced fans from other countries too.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

Huang would work to repeal 41.18, which she described as inhumane, and end what she called “sweeps” — cleanups carried out at encampments by city sanitation crews.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

The old force had come back to work, and for the first time since Broxton Day had arrived in Mexico, the outlook for getting out ore and making regular "cleanups" was bright.

From Janice Day by Helen Beecher Long




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