clean
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Reem al-Sharif, a Hebron city council member, said the operation had actually covered two neighbourhoods, telling AFP that municipal workers were helping to clean up around the area.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
Newhook says the host told them to wash and fold towels, clean the bedding and kitchen, and sweep and mop the floors.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
We hate to sound like Mr. Rogers here, but: Let’s hope for a clean winner, one way or another.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026
Fragrance and stench became shorthand for clean and unclean, respectable and disreputable, “us” and “them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
And we had to wear shoes and clean underdrawers to the funeral.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Moving forward, he said it was important that any further investment "delivers cleaner waters, healthier habitats and stronger public confidence".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
"The key insight was to go back to the mathematics and ask whether there was a fundamentally cleaner way to retrieve spectra," said Dr. Chunhui Yao, a lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Compute futures would offer a cleaner way to bet on or against the AI boom by focusing on the rental prices companies would need to pay for the technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Teachers scooped up the stragglers and ushered them into the shelter's entrance, while the cleaner scanned the playground, muttering as she checked that no one had been left behind.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Much cleaner, although a bit pink and wrinkled from her long soak.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
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In risky therapeutic areas, the cleanest part of the trade is often the run-up to approval, when the main question is simply whether the FDA will say yes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
They also argued that trade union funding is the "cleanest money in politics" which is "heavily regulated".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
"Hyperscalers had attracted much of that buying, while the supply chain remained one of the cleanest expressions of the belief that the AI capex machine would keep running at full throttle," he added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The cleanest way to own the shortage is also the most direct way to own the licensing risk.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 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
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In the coastal Gambian town of Tanji, Sirah Darboe-Manneh cleans fish next to a row of ice boxes laying empty because of relentless power cuts.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
The Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians monitors water quality for algal blooms and cleans up spawning creeks that get clogged with sediment and trash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Volunteer Mitchel Reising cleans a pen occupied by elephant seals 3.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
My father cleans the skin around my wound with something cold.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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"The majority of these birds that have come into us are actually not native species so they can't be returned until the pond is 100% fully cleaned and cleared."
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
But like the Slip, when the tide recedes and the bar is cleaned and dried, business continues as usual.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
She cooked, cleaned, cared for her family and appeared to have discovered several additional hours in the day in which to accomplish it all.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
But heavy glass has to be collected, trucked, cleaned and remelted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
“If only I had kept Runako at home,” said Grandmother as she cleaned the last crumbs of sadza from her bowl.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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Better to “keep calm and carry on,” as the old wartime slogan put it, than to be seen cleaning supermarket shelves of bottled water and canned tuna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Rubble from the demolition blast was strewn around the house, and other relatives could be seen cleaning up the spaces that were still habitable.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
The maker of cleaning products and other household goods on Monday said it now expects full-year adjusted earnings per share at the lower end of its guidance range of $5.70 to $6.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
While Newhook likes the home comforts of staying in an Airbnb, she says the combination of relentless rules and rising cleaning fees has taken away much of its appeal.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
I put it there so it wouldn’t get lost when I was cleaning out my bag two days ago.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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