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So it feels almost too tidy that, in this week’s episode, Cartman is right back where “The End of Obesity” found him.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

He puts the authorities' leniency down partly to the tidy and spartan way he operates his business: a bench, umbrella, card reader and table that he folds up and carts away each evening.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

Ben White: A tidy display in possession, although he made little impact at either end of the pitch.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

As he turned down a lane full of small, tidy houses, he could see lights on in every window, and people sitting in those windows, looking up and down the street.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers

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

We put on our uniforms and sit down to our breakfast of tea and sesame-topped bizkochikos, our favorite biscuits, while Mima tidies the kitchen and Papa reads the newspaper with a pair of thick glasses.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

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

Miley Cyrus, “Flowers” The tidiest self-care bop since Pharrell Williams’ “Happy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

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

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2022

“He has the tidiest and most orderly brain, with the greatest capacity for storing facts, of any man living. . . . All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2018

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

I have to say he was the tidiest person in the house, as opposed to Sophie, who used the floor as a display rack for her clothing choices.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

One robot tidied cupboards and wiped surfaces, while others put orange juice and milk in the fridge, threw away empty packaging and loaded the dishwasher.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

I tidied up the wiring using the kind of tape that the factory would have used in 1939.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

"I cleaned and tidied the house completely, said goodbye to it, and cried for 15 minutes. Then we left Tehran," they said.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

I think I tidied up our two rooms, not to mention changed and rechanged the pillow beneath her swollen knee at least six times before she finally suggested I go to sleep for the night.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

A posse of extras clad in white jumpsuits and little black aprons would occasionally flood the set, tidying up and moving the furniture into new configurations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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

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

She said he was "so proud of his work", which involved putting stock out and tidying the shelves, and was praised for his work ethic by managers.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025

She has been waiting expectantly since after lunch, tidying up the patch of garden this American woman will be able to see from the galeria.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez