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Australia has quickly become a global destination for data centres, with investors attracted to the country's abundance of clean energy, natural gas reserves, and land to power and house their technologies.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
"People want clean, organic, non-GMO foods," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
“By Any Means” suggests it takes a dirty man to clean up a historically and culturally entrenched mess.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
“They blamed me for them having to clean up their property,” Matson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
I pulled up my clean stockings, slipped on and buckled my shoes.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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It’s one of the busiest freight corridors in the United States, and it’s getting cleaner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Ann Russell, a cleaner from Hampshire, amassed a global following of three million people on TikTok after she began posting videos of her day job online.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
One is the resurgence of whale populations thanks to government action including the Endangered Species Act, as well as a cleaner habitat supported by air and water protections.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Peeling produces a slightly cleaner finished syrup, but because the mixture will eventually be strained, leaving the skins on works perfectly well.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Just then, someone else comes down the stairs, a man in a baseball helmet holding a vacuum cleaner.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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The school with the cleanest record got the mildest outcome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
“She has the cleanest prose. I think she’s the best writer of all time,” Jeselnik says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
As Ruthye, Ridley’s crisp British elocution is the cleanest thing in the movie, which is shot by Rob Hardy in shades of mustard smog and latrine brown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
And it said this year's World Cup was likely to be the "cleanest" with about 40–50% of the electricity used expected to come from renewables.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
He had the cleanest fingernails of any man I’d ever seen—it was the male hand in the ad reaching to put the diamond on the Pond’s-caressed female hand.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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If the bank credibly cleans house, Treasury can reconsider the proposed measure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Bass has credited her Inside Safe program, which cleans encampments and moves people into motel rooms, for driving the recent decline in street sleeping.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
And it cleans up in the third, loyalty revenue, including from credit cards, retail partners, and lounge memberships.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
But the tricky pink is missed, O'Sullivan cleans up, wins the decider and Higgins is out.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
Limon is poor herself; she cleans houses across the river in Laredo, Texas, for $20 apiece.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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Three of the country's worst illegal dumps are due to be cleaned up using taxpayers' money, the government has announced.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Jobe cleaned things up for John during the offseason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Cornell temporarily closed the kitchen following the incident and had the space professionally cleaned before allowing students to use it again.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Weisberger said cheap valuations for gold miners as a group were “noteworthy,” and that many of these companies have boosted their profit margins and cleaned up their balance sheets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Jiller had cleaned the cut on his forehead, but his head still ached, and Sheba's jeering words of warning tormented him.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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"There will be painstaking work in cleaning the fossil and preparing it for a marine specialist who will be able to find out more about the creature."
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
School lunches, cleaning supplies and other needs associated with a lack of running water are up to parents to deal with.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Millions of items are eligible for drone delivery out of the Tracy facility, Robertson said, from medications to phone chargers and cleaning products.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Scrawled on the back of one of Wagoner's dry cleaning receipts, it was rated by Rolling Stone magazine, external as her second best-ever song.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
It’s like cleaning the house before the cleaning company gets there, or using deodorant before you see your best friend.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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