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cleanly

[klen-lee, kleen-lee] / ˈklɛn li, ˈklin li /
ADVERB
neat
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In the bottom of the ninth in Game 7, playing second base with the infield in, Rojas cleanly fielded a grounder and threw out Isiah Kiner-Falefa by inches at home plate to save the game.

From Los Angeles Times

"Our biggest challenge," Toda, another first author, explains, "was cleanly separating two kinds of signals from a single image while keeping noise low and avoiding mixing between them."

From Science Daily

A hit woman who has made her kill cleanly, with no blood splatter.

From Salon

"You lose the final of the biggest tournament and you don't think cleanly," she said.

From BBC

It means switching to cleanly made electricity, clean transportation, fewer beef and dairy cows and other sources of harmful gases.

From Los Angeles Times