neat
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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
Serials have their place, but there is nothing like a neat conclusion to repay your hour’s investment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
It’s a neat trick — even when Vance does it.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Perpendicular to that, there’s a lunchtime slop-bowl corridor, offering Just Salad, Dig, Cava, and Sweetgreen in one neat little row.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
Every detail about the woman was neat and precise, except for her fingers, which were smudged with dark grease.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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
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 tie, with his once signature curly, unkempt hair cut into a neater trim.
From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2023
“I don’t think that law applies here,” said Isa, unconsciously adjusting her neat ponytail into an even neater ponytail.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
Instead it was decided one big announcement would be the neatest option.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Perhaps Honeck’s neatest trick was his ability to conjure lightness and amplitude at the same time.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2024
The union drive was far from the neatest thing to roll off Chipotle’s famous burrito assembly line.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 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
The neatest thing in the whole room is a locked suitcase.
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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