clutter
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Otherwise you’ve just traded physical clutter for digital clutter.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
And it’s not by accident that coastal habitats are aggressively protected and most of the shoreline is free of mega resorts and architectural clutter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Last year, they stayed in "a very Scandinavian house" in suburban Copenhagen, which was "all on one level and had no clutter".
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Once the dry clutter is gone, what remains tends to sort itself into a few familiar categories:
From Salon ● May 5, 2026
Hazel ran his fingers through his dark hair and he peered into the clutter of his mind.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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Retrotransposons, or retroelements, are pieces of DNA that, when transcribed to RNA, code for enzymes that copy RNA back into DNA in the genome -- a self-serving cycle that clutters the genome with retrotransposon DNA.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024
A jumble of rectangular timber pieces the size of railroad ties clutters the hillside below, evidence of their morning’s work.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 26, 2023
What if all our acquisitions, effortlessly acquired, started talking back to us, their voices crowding our heads as their presence clutters our lives?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
Now, “it just clutters up my house,” Barkley told “The Dan LeBatard Show” last week.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2020
Booth checks to make sure that nothing clutters the passage.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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Every user I knew complained it was inconsistent, illogical, cluttered, had clunky navigation and ignored accessibility standards.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Just compare the girls’ cluttered digs with their pursuers’ sterile white suits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
She thinks iPods have become popular again because of their "beautiful design" and the way the music player is "the first bit of technology really catering to humans with a less cluttered user interface".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Low-Earth orbit—the zone inhabited by the satellites that give us GPS, remote broadband and weather forecasts—is getting cluttered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
There is a cluttered, musty store near my cage.
From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate
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You don’t have to worry about cluttering your living space with titles you’ve read once and may never read again.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2026
In our experience, seamless connecting and no cables cluttering the center console are reasons enough to insist on wireless smartphone interfacing.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025
The unloved product was shoved into every available online space, cluttering up the digital landscape with junk and hoaxes while promising a far-off profit and a future of easy living.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025
In 2008, The Word magazine coined the phrase "indie landfill" to describe a seemingly endless parade of identikit bloke-bands cluttering the airwaves.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
Markham took the news quite casually when I walked into his office and told him that he might acquire a model student who would never bother him by cluttering up his lab with experimental apparatus.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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