clearing
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County and other public entities, saying that their failures, including not clearing brush and delayed evacuation warnings, increased the fire’s destruction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Syria took a major step in clearing up its one-time suspected nuclear weapons program, allowing U.N. atomic inspectors to verify nuclear material believed to have been stored in the country for at least two decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The inquest heard the flight took about 15 minutes - with Ashman landing and clearing the runway before Lomas made her approach.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
As he’s watched the clearing take place over the past several weeks, Cross and his wife have made the difficult decision to sell their home.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
What I really want is to be alone, outside, clearing my head.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
He’s also missed a number of apartment tours because of encampment clearings, including on Aug. 14, when instead of visiting a promising apartment, he spent the day packing and hauling his belongings.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025
Yatai stressed to us that they are not the same as these rougher operations, some little more than a collection of sheds built in forest clearings.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 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
Just beyond the southern shore there are old timber-company clearings which could someday be converted into trails that hikers can use to reach the adjacent Tahoe National Forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024
About a year ago, a group of us started holding bonfires at dedicated clearings in the woods, nowhere near enough to houses for parents to come nosing around our flickering flames.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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