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clearing

[kleer-ing] / ˈklɪər ɪŋ /


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The program, overseen by her office, spent its first year clearing sprawling encampments in Hollywood, Venice, South L.A., downtown Los Angeles and other areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

In other words, instead of clearing a path for ultraviolet light, energy from exploding stars appears to redistribute gas and dust in ways that can block more of it.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

"While some do the clearing part of the operations. Some are holding some positions that have been cleared."

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

But by then it was too late for some pupils who had already lost their chance of a specific university course, because they had entered clearing.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

But there were no tracks leading out to the center of the clearing, no fox tracks around the grouse cave.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

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

He’s also missed a number of apartment tours because of encampment clearings, including on Aug. 14, when instead of visiting a promising apartment, he spent the day packing and hauling his belongings.

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

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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