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cleanly

adverb as in neat

Weak matches

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In the bottom of the ninth in Game 7, playing second base with the infield in, Rojas cleanly fielded a grounder and threw out Isiah Kiner-Falefa by inches at home plate to save the game.

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"Our biggest challenge," Toda, another first author, explains, "was cleanly separating two kinds of signals from a single image while keeping noise low and avoiding mixing between them."

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A hit woman who has made her kill cleanly, with no blood splatter.

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"You lose the final of the biggest tournament and you don't think cleanly," she said.

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It means switching to cleanly made electricity, clean transportation, fewer beef and dairy cows and other sources of harmful gases.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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