clearance

Example Sentences

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The project appears complex as it requires high structural rigidity and a 62-meters vertical clearance, he reckons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

However, many ships remain anchored and awaiting clearance, and it will take time for them to pass through the strait, the minister said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Because of his earlier work with MI5, Joseph had security clearance up to "Developed Vetting" and he could access information "of the highest classification".

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

This allowed them to closely observe how lecanemab interacts with human immune cells and promotes plaque clearance.

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

The AEC Personnel Security Board hearing into J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance convened on April 12, 1954, in the agency’s dilapidated headquarters, a temporary building on Washington’s National Mall left: over from wartime.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik