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The funds focus on lower-risk infrastructure businesses, which act as a tidy diversifier between bonds and equities, portfolio manager Bertrand Cliquet told MarketWatch in an interview on Monday.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

It is still a pleasant surprise when I open the door to my shop or office or closet to find a tidy workbench or desk—or to see the actual closet floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Some people have braved the high temperatures to tidy up the mess in their houses from the quake and put workplaces back in order.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

“There is no tidy predictable schedule to the illness,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

Rupa bent to sweep the floor in tidy arcs, lifting the longer sari draped across the room and ducking under it to reach the far corners of the one-room hut.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

Moriarty figures heavily in the opening episodes of “Sherlock & Daughter” too, although Dougray Scott lends a malevolent scruff to him that Park’s interpretation tidies up.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

She tidies up his place and spends time with him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025

Watch: Mouse tidies up man's shed every night.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2024

Although the deception predictably comes to a head, as Joy’s husband and daughter act on their suspicions that something is awry, “Call Jane” tidies that mess with baffling brevity.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022

I watch as she tidies my room, picks up clothes, straightens the things on my desk.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Given that gentrification, almost by definition, transforms high-disorder areas into tidier ones, and given that the process appears to be continuing in New York and other cities, hasn’t Mr. Gottlieb got matters exactly backward?

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Sure, it would be tidier, and feel better, to get all of one’s support from like-minded individuals.

From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2026

"Being a little tidier and keep the bogeys off the scorecard, I think I can have a good weekend and get closer to the leaders."

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025

Many natives can be pruned for a tidier appearance, though you may sacrifice some habitat value.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

She was tidier than this as a rule, but she may have had a miserable time in the first-class dining saloon.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

It's not the tidiest grinder I've ever used, but it's the best for brewed coffee.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2022

Since then, I’ve realized that placing fish fillets in parchment envelopes and baking them is actually just about the easiest and tidiest way I’ve found to prepare fish.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2021

My house was the tidiest it had ever been – for a while.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2019

The book was shaped, in collaboration with the composers, by Rick Elice, a writer of “Jersey Boys,” that tidiest of blockbuster jukebox musicals, as well as the ecstatic story-theater piece “Peter and the Starcatcher.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2018

Some of the tidiest nurses on the ward lived in stews in their own rooms, and she would not have been surprised to see a new version of Cecilia’s old chaos.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

It is not simply that the curators have tidied up before letting the public in: Woolf’s “writing lodge” at Monk’s House in Sussex, England, for instance, is suspiciously clear of crumpled envelopes and broken cigarette-holders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

That night, Gil tidied up around the store, cleaned the bathroom, got ready to close for the day.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

Molting peacocks squawked in the distance and a Pacific breeze whispered through the eucalyptus as flamingo keeper Liz Gibbons tidied her station at the San Francisco Zoo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025

Even real life needs to be tidied up at the movies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

The grass around the grave behind Gram’s—the one belonging to Isabella Fortune, Gram’s teacher who died really young—has been tidied up recently, and someone’s planted a little rosebush by it.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

Some colleagues wish he had picked a less loaded term for what they hope is an overdue tidying of operational lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Donning my academic editor title, I imagined myself tasked with the act of tidying, turning teenage madness, drama, beauty into writing that is still dramatic and beautiful—just grammatically correct.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

Norwegian CEO Bernt Børnich says NEO is very useful in his own home, busily hoovering and tidying up after his family, which he says is "a mix" of autonomous action and human-operated.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2026

Minister Chung said North Koreans have been spotted "sprucing up" areas near the JSA for the first time this year -- cleaning, pulling weeds, tidying flower beds and taking photos.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

Then we get back to work on the spare room and Bubbe’s bedroom: moving clothes, packing up boxes, tidying and sorting the house till it looks as close to presentable as it’s going to get.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler