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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
Florian Wirtz: Constantly posed a threat and unlucky not to score, having had a neat finish ruled out as Frimpong was offside and a solid header tipped over by Matz Sels.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
The climate’s messy reality can collide with neat story lines about how the coming months will play out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“It was really neat to see it unfold because he sent an initial list and we were like, ‘Wow, this is great,’ ” LeMaire says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The children eagerly obeyed and gathered their possessions into neat piles, which they proceeded to measure.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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
Using résumés always has kept the decision-making process neater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
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
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
Instead it was decided one big announcement would be the neatest option.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
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
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 recounted.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
It was the neatest project we’d ever worked on.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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