clearing
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As companies try to keep Wall Street happy in a period of market unrest, their third-quarter results are barely clearing the bar.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 8, 2026
This makes it harder for certain large molecules to reach the cells responsible for clearing them, allowing more of these substances to remain in circulation.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Bass insists Inside Safe has made progress, clearing 140 encampments across the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Blake and his co-worker Cian Davey use the chemical-free decoys while clearing riverside vegetation and say they work particularly well against horseflies.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
How long until Morris blew hot embers into the clearing and chased them away again?
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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
"We carried our own rice and slept on grass in clearings," he said in a 1998 interview.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
G. lost his tent and a stash of his belongings during the federally mandated Aug. 15 clearings carried out by local D.C. police, but he was able to save one of his bikes.
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
We enjoyed this new cadence, taking the time to help Chi-Boy gather sticks for arrows, playing in the clearings dotted with strangely robust flowers new to the territory.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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