- present participle of clear.
clearing
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Excavators have swung into action, clearing forest and farmland on the southeast coast for the $15 billion construction of Google's largest data centre outside the United States.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Data from Kpler indicate that the seven-day average for oil clearing the Strait is 14.19 million barrels a day, approaching the prewar baseline of 17.13 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Whatever the mechanism, real rates are very high. At some point that is simply the clearing price for fiscally dominant economies trying to attract enough private capital to fund enormous sovereign borrowing,” he says.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Dozens rallied outside Paramount’s Hollywood lot, saying the settlement clearing its Warner Bros. merger fails to protect L.A. entertainment jobs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
At last he lay down next to her, in the center of the circular clearing, under the moon shadow of the trees, facing her.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Most of the Polish villages had disappeared from the map; sometimes the only signs they ever existed are the apple trees left behind in fields and forest clearings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
"We carried our own rice and slept on grass in clearings," he said in a 1998 interview.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
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
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
The ground began to slope downwards very slightly now, and although the clearings were much wider, the foliage got more tangled, in some places there were nettles and clinging ivy, as high as their knees.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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