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It made the idea of a clean, surgical war impossible to sustain and allowed the authorities to present themselves as the defenders of the Iranian people against foreign attack.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

“While patients are now protected from surprise bills, the system is being gamed to get higher prices, and CMS is actively working to clean it up.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

The MIT design lowered that coupling to about 1 percent while still generating one clean and precise beam.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

It was outshot 20-2 for the game, and Spanish keeper Unai Simón, who gave up just one goal in eight matches, was not forced to make a save in registering his seventh clean sheet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

He had clean, clipped nails, and calluses along his fingers, probably from working on the house with his dad.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Under the ETS, greenhouse gas-emitting companies like power plants must pay for a permit, or allowance, for each metric ton they emit, essentially incentivizing them to invest in cleaner tech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

This refinery also risks becoming a stranded asset as the world moves toward cleaner energy.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

Because the ultra fine bubbles vanish after drying, the researchers believe their method could provide a cleaner, more precise way to produce next generation microdevices without the drawbacks of conventional ink additives.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

Applying to be a train conductor, which starts at $26.70 an hour, also becomes easier once a candidate has logged time as a cleaner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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

Ohtani gave up seven hits for a quality start that wasn’t his cleanest but was enough for the Dodgers to win after Hernández’s blast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

And it said this year's World Cup was likely to be the "cleanest" with about 40–50% of the electricity used expected to come from renewables.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 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

I put on my cleanest dress and the pinafore, which I hung on a branch by the side of the house to dry after we did the washing on Sunday.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

One of the most remarkable discoveries of recent years is that while we sleep, the brain cleans itself.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

His wife, who cleans hospitals, starts work before dawn and does school pickup in the afternoon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

WSJ | Buy Side: This lightweight, agile cordless vacuum cleans in all directions, with a green laser to show hidden dust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

In the rice paddies of Buri Ram, Thailand, a sarus crane gently cleans its one-week-old chick before lingering in a quiet beak-to-beak moment.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

He cleans up the next three questions and completes round four, keeping us in first place.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

He notes that without his previous experience recognizing fossilized wasp nests, he might have simply cleaned away the unusual sediment during fossil preparation.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Other times, it’s so strong it’s as if she stuck her head inside an old trash can that’s never been cleaned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

The charity said the 13 birds had been collected and taken away to be cleaned but several other "partially oiled" birds were spotted and proved unable to be retrieved.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Meanwhile, a handful of investors who sold early cleaned up.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

“Because you haven’t cleaned up yet,” he said to the orphans, “I suppose you can be excused from attending tonight’s performance. But after cleaning up, you are to go straight to your beds.”

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

"When Alzheimer's patients lose this stage, they lose their brain's primary cleaning cycle, creating a feed-forward loop that may drive further damage."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

Charlotte was cleaning out her parents’ garage last summer when she found a box of catalogs, circa 1996–1999. dELiA*s, MoxieGirl, Alloy — they were all there.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

The case sought to block Shell's exit from Nigeria's onshore oil sector, without cleaning up decades of pollution.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

In March 1989, a midday tube rupture at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo sent cleaning solvent-filled steam into the air and trashed the paint jobs on about 2,000 neighboring cars and trucks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

I complained about not being able to read while I walked to and from school or when I was cleaning the second floor of Birdie’s.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy