housecleaning

Example Sentences

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Bowman has slashed staff and pursued what many inside and outside the central bank view as a housecleaning of the supervision and regulation division’s senior leadership.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

Irregular labor like yard work or housecleaning is their only way of making a living.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

The housecleaning could delay processing the income statements because the financial team had been reshuffled, the source said, adding "with some firings, rediscovering the past gets even more complicated."

From Reuters • Jun. 22, 2023

Organizations on the left and right created a critical mass for a housecleaning, and in 1938 Shaw was recalled, the nation’s first recall of a big-city mayor.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023

In waitressing, you always have new customers to study; even housecleaning offers the day’s parade of houses to explore.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich