clean
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Brighton managed 10 clean sheets last season, bettered by only six teams.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Hull are likely to face plenty of matches where their attacking opportunities are limited and they are unlikely to get many clean sheets.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
M&G isn’t a clean takeover candidate due to its valuation premium, JPM adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
He accuses professional and college associations of being “fixated” on keeping their sports clean, as if that were a bad thing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
It did not take long to gather my “things”: my hat and an undervest that was drying after a vain attempt to get it clean in the much-used basin water.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
On a busy road across from a dry cleaner, the storefront entrance blends into the real tire shop it’s attached to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“The park was cleaner when it had the boats,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Mildred Barreto, a 66-year-old cleaner, still calls him "comandante," meaning commander.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
It sounded like your previous cleaner was coasting, in addition to leaving sticky marks under your actual coaster.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
I shrugged and stared at my bare feet, cleaner than they’d been in years, almost unrecognizable.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
But growth is also transforming the more remote northwest corner: Flathead County, known for Glacier National Park and one of America’s largest and cleanest natural freshwater lakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
As Ruthye, Ridley’s crisp British elocution is the cleanest thing in the movie, which is shot by Rob Hardy in shades of mustard smog and latrine brown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Working with a financial planner is the cleanest path, especially as dollar amounts increase and tax implications get more complicated.
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, however, supplied the argument’s most exacting skepticism, and likely the cleanest window into which a center-right majority might land.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2026
My mother sometimes said proudly that this plant was the cleanest in Georgia.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
Plus, Beijing accelerates its buildup in space and a drone maker cleans 28 tons of waste from Mount Everest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Bass has credited her Inside Safe program, which cleans encampments and moves people into motel rooms, for driving the recent decline in street sleeping.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
And it cleans up in the third, loyalty revenue, including from credit cards, retail partners, and lounge memberships.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
Beach cleans, bird watching, countryside walks, workshops, lectures and talks as well as a foray into macro-photography all feature in the programme of more than 25 events.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
“I have a girl who cleans and cooks so I have a lot of stew in my freezer and jollof rice in my fridge. We can have lunch here. Would you like something to drink?”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A local environmental protection official has since said the spill has been "almost completely cleaned up".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Cornell temporarily closed the kitchen following the incident and had the space professionally cleaned before allowing students to use it again.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Weisberger said cheap valuations for gold miners as a group were “noteworthy,” and that many of these companies have boosted their profit margins and cleaned up their balance sheets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
The seller, it turned out, had been auctioning coins that had been cleaned or artificially altered—a serious flaw that graders flag and collectors shun, rendering the coins nearly impossible to resell at a profit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Whether at the Virginia Electric Company, the bank, or the Episcopal church, all of which Daddy now cleaned, in town there was work.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
“These are all good things: cleaning trash, picking up gates. But we’re still left with more questions than answers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
I remember your cleaning dilemma all too well.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Josh Bycel said his father reveled in the challenge of cleaning up L.A. politics and was frustrated by his abrupt ouster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Bass has also issued executive orders to mobilise resources and speed up the cleaning process.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
She and her brother stepped inside and wound their way past gleaming pipes and tanks and over to where Roz was cleaning some equipment.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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