tidy
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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
Essex had been progressing serenely after tea on the second day of the County Championship match when Charlie Allison became Crocombe's first victim after a tidy 56.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The team focused on improving quality and pairing down some assortment to tidy stores, said this person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Benny began to tidy up the area around the register, dismissing her.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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
She makes me laugh one minute, tidies without permission the next.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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
Councils have tried various methods to make this tidier, ranging from placing vinyl stickers on pavements showing where bin bags should be placed, to repurposing plastic storage containers normally made for grit or dog waste.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 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
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
If their disappearance was the work of shamblers, they were the tidiest shamblers I’ve ever heard of.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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
So obviously I tidied my entire bedroom because I knew the Zoom was going to face out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 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
She arranged the details of her past the way she tidied up her house, and she had never told Ernest, her instinctively jealous second husband, about her Osage wedding with Roan.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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
Beijing cleaner Lin Meiqiong found her work a little easier the day she was paired with an unlikely new colleague -- a tall, wheeled robot with AI-powered tidying skills.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 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
"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
Buford came out into the open, saw his staff tidying itself up, combing hair, buttoning buttons.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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