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clean

[kleen] / klin /








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In quiet hours, his unoccupied mind would wonder whether he should clean the bones and preserve them as a souvenir.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The picture is not one of clean lineages but of a tangled web of contact and exchange extending across millions of years.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

"As Turkey increases renewable capacity, it must ensure clean electricity replaces fossil-fuel generation rather than simply meeting additional demand," Kutluay said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

A recent report only gave 39 clean audits - the highest ranking a public entity can achieve - between 2024 and 2025.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

“Aunt Maud’s,” I said, and Lloyd agreed, to keep Charlie from picking us clean.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

South of Johannesburg, Soweto looks marginally cleaner than Alexandra, but residents also complain about service delivery.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Today those organizations block the projects a cleaner economy requires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Lula "has been on the side of the poor," said cleaner Damiao da Silva.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

"The key insight was to go back to the mathematics and ask whether there was a fundamentally cleaner way to retrieve spectra," said Dr. Chunhui Yao, a lead author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Kumu Whitman points to the cupboard where he keeps the paper towels and spray cleaner.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

I’m no saint, but have we all turned into Susie Greene from “Curb Your Enthusiasm”? “Get up off your fat ass” was the cleanest line I could find, and that was to her husband.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

"Hyperscalers had attracted much of that buying, while the supply chain remained one of the cleanest expressions of the belief that the AI capex machine would keep running at full throttle," he added.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

He said the property had not been the cleanest his team had encountered, but cockroaches could thrive anywhere there had been a food source, including abandoned food.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

“My Administration is committed to protecting every acre of our lands and preserving the cleanest air and water in the world,” Trump said in a presidential message on Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

A boy and a girl about my age are leaning on the fence, chatting, and I look down on the prettiest, cleanest pigs I’ve ever seen.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

On Aug. 6, he had been at his job with 2nd Call, which resolves gang conflicts and cleans up neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

In the coastal Gambian town of Tanji, Sirah Darboe-Manneh cleans fish next to a row of ice boxes laying empty because of relentless power cuts.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Volunteer Mitchel Reising cleans a pen occupied by elephant seals 3.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Scheets and other young entrepreneurs are also driving the trend by capitalizing on demand for full-service cleans to keep America’s aging fleet of vehicles looking spiffy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

His momma, Mrs. Williams, cleans at the Riverwalk Casino—daytime, nighttime, overtime.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

More worker flexibility, including creature comforts such as heated and cooled bathrooms with running water on worksites, or regularly cleaned breakrooms, are part of the pitch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

But like the Slip, when the tide recedes and the bar is cleaned and dried, business continues as usual.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The lawmaker, elected in 2019, grew up in a modest family in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, where his mother cleaned homes and his father collected bus fares for a living.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

She cooked, cleaned, cared for her family and appeared to have discovered several additional hours in the day in which to accomplish it all.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

“First, we’ll get you all cleaned up,” Inés began.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Grose said Lurie won immediate support and high marks among both moderates and progressives by cleaning streets and moving people indoors while also working on longer-term problem-solving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

The USC findings suggest that restoring this natural cleaning process could offer a different approach to preventing certain age-related illnesses.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Better to “keep calm and carry on,” as the old wartime slogan put it, than to be seen cleaning supermarket shelves of bottled water and canned tuna.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Rubble from the demolition blast was strewn around the house, and other relatives could be seen cleaning up the spaces that were still habitable.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Ditto the cleaning up of Wall Street trading culture.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis


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