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clearing

[kleer-ing] / ˈklɪər ɪŋ /


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Both sides described Rinderknecht working as an Uber driver on New Year’s Eve before parking and hiking to a clearing known as Hidden Buddha.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 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

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 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

I’m seated on a fallen tree in a clearing.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

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

More federally mandated encampment clearings followed in the coming weeks, even as the city ramped up its own schedule of standard encampment clearings.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025

He also asked his crew to be on the lookout for clearings - free from trees and bushes - just in case one was needed.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 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

Others commented about large clearings in the forests, some with well-tended gardens and cornfields.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz


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