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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
The science does not offer a neat ending.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
An Elder male with neat braids and a navy-blue bandana gave him a hug.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
For Galton, the word eugenics was an opportune fit—“at least a neater word...than viriculture, which I once ventured to use.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
“It’s the neatest job I’ve ever had,” he said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 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
He was voted neatest junior boy last year, and Papa had hugged him so tight that Jaja thought his back had snapped.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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