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clean

[kleen] / klin /








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It was largely the reason behind the positive start to the season despite failing to keep a clean sheet against top-flight opposition until Alonso's eighth game in charge.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

She warned the "35 by 35" target did not specify electricity should be generated by clean energy -- the only way to deliver climate benefits.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

Advances in clean energy, quantum computing, and powerful electronics for artificial intelligence all depend on knowing how chemical reactions unfold, how light interacts with materials, and how electrons travel through electronic devices.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

He sets the Cat up to fail, threatening to fire him if there’s even one mess, then tempting the Cat with a dangerously devious device, the Go-Backer, to clean up his mess.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

I grab clean clothes for myself and take them down the hall to the bathroom, where I rinse out the cut on my leg with a washcloth and change.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Promise Knight, the council's cabinet member for cleaner streets, transport and public realm, said School Streets existed in the borough "to make the journey to and from school safer for children and families".

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

South of Johannesburg, Soweto looks marginally cleaner than Alexandra, but residents also complain about service delivery.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

A direct listing “is a cleaner, quicker way for us to become a publicly traded company.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Deodorant, refrigeration, sewers, garbage collection and synthetic fragrances have made the environment cleaner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

It was like the bazaar in Makeni—only it was indoors, cleaner, and better.

From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince

"Hyperscalers had attracted much of that buying, while the supply chain remained one of the cleanest expressions of the belief that the AI capex machine would keep running at full throttle," he added.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

He said the property had not been the cleanest his team had encountered, but cockroaches could thrive anywhere there had been a food source, including abandoned food.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

The school with the cleanest record got the mildest outcome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

The cleanest way to own the shortage is also the most direct way to own the licensing risk.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

When consumers know once again how their food is produced, they are naturally going to want it produced in the cleanest, most humane and environmentally healthy ways.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

On Aug. 6, he had been at his job with 2nd Call, which resolves gang conflicts and cleans up neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

In the coastal Gambian town of Tanji, Sirah Darboe-Manneh cleans fish next to a row of ice boxes laying empty because of relentless power cuts.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

The Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians monitors water quality for algal blooms and cleans up spawning creeks that get clogged with sediment and trash.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

If the bank credibly cleans house, Treasury can reconsider the proposed measure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

I’m surprised ’cause Mama Ya-Ya usually cleans while I eat.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

It is the complete show from the Pontiac Silverdome in December of 1975, cleaned up and remastered.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

More worker flexibility, including creature comforts such as heated and cooled bathrooms with running water on worksites, or regularly cleaned breakrooms, are part of the pitch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

"The majority of these birds that have come into us are actually not native species so they can't be returned until the pond is 100% fully cleaned and cleared."

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

The lawmaker, elected in 2019, grew up in a modest family in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, where his mother cleaned homes and his father collected bus fares for a living.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Owen spent the longest minutes of his life clenching his stomach against the pain as George cleaned and bandaged his wounds.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Rowlands and his wife both take on a share of cleaning the holiday let, as well as employing a cleaner, but they only employ them part-time to keep costs down.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

In China and other East Asian countries especially, robots are an increasingly common sight, shuttling food to customers in chain restaurants and taking on other jobs from cleaning to greeting hotel guests.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

Grose said Lurie won immediate support and high marks among both moderates and progressives by cleaning streets and moving people indoors while also working on longer-term problem-solving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

House managers say they draw the line at dirty work like cleaning toilets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

“We should tell Alex the motel needs new cleaning supplies. He might not know how toxic all this stuff is.”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy


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