clearing
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Outbreaks of rain will spread southwards during Saturday, clearing from Scotland and Northern Ireland but continuing into the afternoon across parts of northern England, Wales and the Midlands.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
After Yorktown, the British House of Commons voted to end offensive war, bringing down Lord Frederick North and clearing the way for peace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Last year, Dolly critiqued AI content when clearing rumors surrounding her health, which swirled online after sister Freida Parton asked the public for prayers in a Facebook post on Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Experts also blame climate change, decades of forest degradation and slash-and-burn land clearing practices that have changed the naturally fire-resistant landscape.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
We start back the way we think we came, but we come out into a clearing neither of us remembers.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
All six have lost belongings and suffered exhaustion and physical ailments since their abrupt clearings.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025
Yatai stressed to us that they are not the same as these rougher operations, some little more than a collection of sheds built in forest clearings.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 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
Just beyond the southern shore there are old timber-company clearings which could someday be converted into trails that hikers can use to reach the adjacent Tahoe National Forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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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