clearing
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Philippine police are examining materials reportedly discovered by Meghan’s half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr., while clearing out their father’s former home in Cebu.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
The roof has maybe three years left and the furnace sounds like it’s clearing its throat every morning.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
"These particles are little magnets that attract the bacterial toxin, and they hijack the immune system, preventing it from clearing bacteria," said Kotsakis.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
City crews have also been clearing more than 31,000 catch basins and drainage systems and inspecting and reinforcing vulnerable hillsides and burn areas, including Pacific Palisades, Bass said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Babci’s stone cottage was in the clearing beyond.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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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
G. lost his tent and a stash of his belongings during the federally mandated Aug. 15 clearings carried out by local D.C. police, but he was able to save one of his bikes.
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
She could see lights on in the Humble camp and in houses scattered here and there in clearings.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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