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Coroners are in the business of endings, putting a neat period on decades of damage with phrases like “cardiac arrest.”
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
The scene is a neat bookend to the “You can’t handle the truth” outburst elicited from Jack Nicholson’s Col.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
They’ve shown their boys a path to success but each must find their own way, though having a doctor in the family while playing football is pretty neat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Filled with curiosity, the 36-year-old charity worker examined it - noting "really neat" handwriting for a child - and posted on her local Facebook community group on Thursday morning to track down the author.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
I even put a gold ribbon round it and tied it in a neat bow.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
As I thinned out the garage shelves—recycling old paint, giving away a box of used electric outlets, listing plumbing supplies on Craigslist’s “free stuff” section—the shelves grew neater.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Roger Rose, from Burton Latimer, where Kettering's ground is, is repairing a previous "chicken wire" fence with neater plastic mesh.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024
It’s neater and easier that way because intersectionality is messy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
He was dressed in a suit and striped tie, with his once signature curly, unkempt hair cut into a neater trim.
From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2023
Janie had written it for him, because her writing was much neater than his.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
Instead it was decided one big announcement would be the neatest option.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The union drive was far from the neatest thing to roll off Chipotle’s famous burrito assembly line.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2022
Even the neatest gray flannel shift had a hunk of hairy shearling flapping down one leg.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2022
“My mother kept it for Amelia. She thought it was the neatest thing. It was never about that boy she wouldn’t even name,” Twiggs said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
Dawn was spreading her rosy fingers in the sky when Sean finished twenty of the smallest, neatest, most careful stitches his big fingers could manage, would ever manage.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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