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Unless it’s a clean sweep by the Democrats, none of this will happen.

The chytrid pandemic was selecting frogs based on their microbes—a selective sweep in which amphibians harboring one microbial community survived above all others.

This gravel handlebar keeps the controls in the same neutral position as a standard road handlebar and creates sweep below the controls for a wider, more confident hand position when riding in the drops.

There’s also no evidence that a single sweep of the virus through the population would lead to herd immunity, says Sten Vermund, dean of the Yale School of Public Health.

Although several players have gotten close, and several others seem like they’ve played for every single team in a league, there are surprisingly few who have made a clean sweep of a given division.

Decorative yes, but a daily handbag that will sweep through the closets of women worldwide?

In the long sweep of LGBT equality, it could have stood as a seminal moment.

The “24-hour news cycle” just makes them harder to sweep under the rug and ignore.

It was a street-sweep, and violence had broken out, and the government was cracking down.

The remains were shipped to Fiji just as the war was about to sweep the region.

To talk German was beyond the sweep of my dizziest ambition, but an Italian runner or porter instantly presented himself.

He walked up the sweep of sandy drive to the hotel and went through the big glass doors.

Thenceforth, it ebbed, though it raged madly for a while in the effort to sweep away the obstruction.

And then if the ghost of a chimney-sweep were to appear—and why not the spirit of a sweep as well as anybody else?

It is otherwise with the people who dwell upon the land over which these atmospheric convulsions sweep.