clearing
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California water regulators have approved a permit for Sites Reservoir, clearing the way for construction of the state’s first new major reservoir in decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
This makes it harder for certain large molecules to reach the cells responsible for clearing them, allowing more of these substances to remain in circulation.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Indonesia's wildfires are a yearly occurrence, widely associated with industrial-scale land clearing to make way for crops like oil palm.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
The results beat Wall Street consensus of 38% growth but still fell short of clearing the 40%-plus benchmark that institutional investors were expecting, Thill said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
The road opened to a clearing and a place, like the road, she had not been aware existed.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Most of the Polish villages had disappeared from the map; sometimes the only signs they ever existed are the apple trees left behind in fields and forest clearings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
"We carried our own rice and slept on grass in clearings," he said in a 1998 interview.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, which normally runs encampment closures and clearings in the city, was not involved in the closures, according to a statement from the agency.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2025
As asylum seekers and organizers braced for the clearing, the appointed hour came and went with no police presence or trucks to haul garbage, as homeless encampment clearings usually have.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
They ran southeast, in the direction he wanted them to go, with tails straight out behind their manure-stained haunches, running more like deer than cattle, moving from thicket to thicket for cover, avoiding the clearings.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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