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[neet] / nit /




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Perpendicular to that, there’s a lunchtime slop-bowl corridor, offering Just Salad, Dig, Cava, and Sweetgreen in one neat little row.

From Slate Sep. 6, 2026

The climate’s messy reality can collide with neat story lines about how the coming months will play out.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

He is neat on the ball and unafraid to take risks - a return of 15 goals and 21 assists for Liverpool, across all competitions, showcases what he can do.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

“It was really neat to see it unfold because he sent an initial list and we were like, ‘Wow, this is great,’ ” LeMaire says.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

For five days, girls in fourth grade through seventh grade from all over Brevard County learned all kinds of neat stuff about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

As I thinned out the garage shelves—recycling old paint, giving away a box of used electric outlets, listing plumbing supplies on Craigslist’s “free stuff” section—the shelves grew neater.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

Why is your instinct as a musician to go for something neater?

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2025

Roger Rose, from Burton Latimer, where Kettering's ground is, is repairing a previous "chicken wire" fence with neater plastic mesh.

From BBC Nov. 16, 2024

He was dressed in a suit and tie, with his once signature curly, unkempt hair cut into a neater trim.

From Reuters Oct. 3, 2023

His words are neater than mine, but they look good together.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

Instead it was decided one big announcement would be the neatest option.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

I never thought he was the neatest person.

From Washington Post Sep. 13, 2022

The union drive was far from the neatest thing to roll off Chipotle’s famous burrito assembly line.

From Slate Sep. 8, 2022

Even the neatest gray flannel shift had a hunk of hairy shearling flapping down one leg.

From New York Times Mar. 6, 2022

“He always has the neatest desk in the class. He’d better or he’ll hear from his uncle. Do you know him?”

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney




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