clearing
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The railroads responded by fitting spark arresters to their engines and clearing brush along the tracks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
"We're now clearing rubble and trying to plan recovery," Myronenko tells the BBC.
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
“Johnno,” Babs calls, to a man in a black shirt who’s clearing off a just-vacated table.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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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
But butterflies whose lifecycles are tied to specific habitats, such as woodland clearings or chalk grasslands, are struggling.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
He’s lost tools, scooters, and generators during at least eight city 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
For the most part it was covered with a thick growth of gorse and whortleberry, and low tough thorns, though here and there clearings opened, the scars of recent fires.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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