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"Our experiment provides a very neat way to study these multiple phases."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
A week later, the school’s possessions, including furniture, science equipment and athletic gear, had been organized, stacked in neat rows and put up for auction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Downstairs, men sort plastics, cardboard, paper, metals and glass into neat piles destined for workshops and factories.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Archer, who finished with figures of 2-20, wrapped up the India innings with a neat bit of footwork, kicking the ball on to the stumps to beat Axar Patel's run from the non-striker's end.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
That would be neat if we could finish it and you could use it to find fun things to do in DC that your parents would take you to.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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I grew a little neater as I aged, especially during Covid, but was never what anyone would call fastidious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Why is your instinct as a musician to go for something neater?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
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
He was dressed in a suit and tie, with his once signature curly, unkempt hair cut into a neater trim.
From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2023
I flip through each page, watching my handwriting get smaller and neater as the years go by.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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He was apparently not the neatest of scientists, and the show riffs on other scientists who frown on his untidy habits.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
I never thought he was the neatest person.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2022
The new study is “one of the neatest papers, ever” for revealing this overlooked anatomical feature, says Brock Fenton, a retired bat biologist and echolocation expert at the University of Western Ontario.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 26, 2022
López-Alt’s neatest trick, though, is his ability to get a nation that hates learning about science to devour a riveting explanation of how salt dissolves meat protein and makes your burger patty sticky and yucky.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2021
And then, in the neatest way you could wish, the tear in the back of his hauberk caught on a hook in the wall.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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