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
She says her housecleaning service uses all-natural, nontoxic ingredients with no known carcinogens, human or aquatic toxins, and no known reproductive toxins.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 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
Its hair was so matted and covered with leaves that it looked like an owl’s nest in need of housecleaning.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
