clearing
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These include hunting, widespread land clearing, bushfires, and disease.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Powers to nationalise the steel industry have been passed, clearing the way for British Steel to be brought under public ownership.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
The U.S. has been using and experimenting with sea drones in waters around the world to carry out a range of missions, including conducting maritime surveillance, clearing sea mines and simulating attack swarms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The bill, which is sponsored by the district attorney’s office and advocacy group Social Compassion in Legislation, passed the Senate’s public safety committee after clearing the Assembly earlier this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
In the middle of the clearing, near a pinewood long-fire, a group of women sat on willow-branch mats, talking quietly as they shelled hazelnuts and picked over a basket of juniper berries.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, which normally runs encampment closures and clearings in the city, was not involved in the closures, according to a statement from the agency.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2025
Yatai stressed to us that they are not the same as these rougher operations, some little more than a collection of sheds built in forest clearings.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2025
As asylum seekers and organizers braced for the clearing, the appointed hour came and went with no police presence or trucks to haul garbage, as homeless encampment clearings usually have.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Just beyond the southern shore there are old timber-company clearings which could someday be converted into trails that hikers can use to reach the adjacent Tahoe National Forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024
We enjoyed this new cadence, taking the time to help Chi-Boy gather sticks for arrows, playing in the clearings dotted with strangely robust flowers new to the territory.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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