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It was a strange little society of meats that belonged neither behind the butcher counter nor among the premium lunch meats — the thin-sliced turkey in its tidy package, the glossy hunk of honey ham.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

Mohamed Belloumi: Very calm performance, tidy short passes and rarely gave the ball away, which allowed Hull to build momentum.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 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

Scattered along the walls of the studio were tidy heaps of scarves and mesh, rainbows of stripes, every shade of ballet pink, Uggs of every height.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Miss Lumley, I can tell from your clear thinking, good grammar, and tidy penmanship that you are a superior governess; this reflects well upon your own education.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2024

Tears pour down Paul’s face as he tidies up the disheveled uniform looking for words to say goodbye.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

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

Where Americans think of graphically violent procedurals as comfort watches, the British prefer their TV homicides to be much tidier: Serious violence occurs offscreen.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

Lily pulled out a thick album with a fabric cover, much tidier than the battered Big Blue Book Chicken loved so much.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

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

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2022

Jameis Winston, the infamous, reckless turnover machine, threw for five touchdowns in the tidiest 20-pass performance you’ll ever witness.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 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

Implausible horror movies ask you to buy that a curse can be broken, a killer bested, nightmares tidied into a neat resolution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

"Rangers don't really have time. The style of play right now, seems like it's not really working right now. That needs to be tidied up before the next round."

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2025

It was all as neat and welcoming as if Nature herself had swept and tidied up her best room, figuring on guests coming to call.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

And the groove, this time led by a simple, prancing line by Mr. Maynard, simulates the rhythmic movement of tidying up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 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

"It tends to be this daily thing of resetting the house, and cleaning and tidying," said the 32-year-old mum-of-two.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025

“Mostly cleaning and tidying rooms, making the beds—that sort of thing.”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy