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“Yes, I am discouraged. … But I am not despairing,” said Bill McKibben, an author and environmental activist who is organizing a worldwide event called Sun Day for next year to promote clean energy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
And he wrote this week about the man who had to clean up the mess left by Kiffin and take over as head coach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
There was a small kitchen, with a sign taped to the fridge: “Please clean up after yourself no maid service here!!!”
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
"And for a starting price of £4.5m you got eight goals, 12 clean sheets, three assists and a total of 171 points. Bargain."
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
The officers found her young teenage sons, Ferdie and Henry Jr., well dressed, clean, and fed.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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“Lyft also has a cleaner balance sheet with $900 million in total debt versus $23.5 billion for Uber,” Lemonides said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
The 58-year-old window cleaner from Bolton, in Greater Manchester, is the proud owner of a sparkling new set of "Tirana teeth".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
So if cleaner air is only responsible for part of the recent acceleration in global warming, what else is at work?
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
It pivoted from powering the site with natural-gas turbines to using cleaner, quieter fuel cells from Bloom Energy, up to 2.45 gigawatts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“I told you the dry cleaner was closed,” calls a woman’s voice from the car.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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"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
“She has the cleanest prose. I think she’s the best writer of all time,” Jeselnik says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
As Brusuelas puts it: "It's the cleanest shirt in a very filthy laundry."
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
McDonald’s franchisees installed filtration equipment to ensure the cleanest, crispiest flavor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
The mother said they had driven almost a hundred and fifty miles looking for a Sunoco station because they were the cleanest, but what good was clean if you couldn’t get in?
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
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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
So why are people so captivated by videos of hoarded homes, crime scene cleans and other extreme clear-outs?
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 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
As he crawls, his diaper cleans the floor, picking up bits of dust and hair and pulling it along like a little mop.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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A sign outside the bathroom noted he recently cleaned the compost toilet for a week, and it encouraged peers to thank him if the facilities were nice or “get at them” if they were gross.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Once they are cleaned by a conservation specialist, we expect to find out more about the identities and personal narratives of the people buried here.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Oh, sorry, sir,” he said sheepishly before turning back to the others, who immediately lowered their voices and cleaned up their language.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Stand-in captain Salman Ali Agha was cleaned up, Ali Usman and Mohammed Rizwan were lbw – the latter on a marginal DRS – and Mohammed Abbas lost his off stump.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
He cleaned the bathroom, cooked dinner, and even cut the grass.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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Their time spent cooking and cleaning has doubled in the past two decades, to 31 minutes a day last year from 16 minutes in 2003.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The toothbrush camera targets interdental cleaning, helping your teeth stay in pristine condition between dentist-office cleanings.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
Also in attendance at the news conference was Carmen Sanchez, 49, who works the night janitorial shift cleaning offices in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Ashby said the USA was "digging up and cleaning up these sites" and seeing PCB levels in the environment falling as a result.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
“I should hope not. I’ve spent the better half of a day cleaning the place.”
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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