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  • present participle of clear.
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clearing

[kleer-ing] / ˈklɪər ɪŋ /


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Dozens rallied outside Paramount’s Hollywood lot, saying the settlement clearing its Warner Bros. merger fails to protect L.A. entertainment jobs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Whatever the mechanism, real rates are very high. At some point that is simply the clearing price for fiscally dominant economies trying to attract enough private capital to fund enormous sovereign borrowing,” he says.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

His colleagues are doing their bit to revive the factory, clearing away rubble and fixing whatever can be fixed.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

"If the system responsible for clearing signaling molecules isn't working properly, everything builds up."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

The houses promised by the government were incomplete, the cement still wet, so they slept outdoors at first, terrified of snakes and other wild animals in the bushy new clearing.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

But butterflies whose lifecycles are tied to specific habitats, such as woodland clearings or chalk grasslands, are struggling.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

Over the past year, G. has been no stranger to encampment clearings.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 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

I look around and notice that there isn’t just one campfire, but several, constellated across the span of the traffic-jammed freeway, in different clearings.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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