clearing
Example Sentences
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Private-equity firms made progress clearing their shelves of dusty investments this year.
Runways need extra clearing, planes need further de-icing, air traffic controllers are stretched thin and flight crews time out.
From Salon
Snow ploughs have been deployed and will begin clearing streets once two inches have accumulated.
From BBC
We plodded through the powder, passing deer tracks as we moved, until we reached a small clearing with several promising candidates.
One method -- termed "moving mountains" -- was described in 2015 by China's top industry and technology regulator as "first cutting down trees, then clearing weeds and finally stripping away the topsoil, causing irreparable damage".
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
