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Under a microscope, researchers watched the sea spider wrap these appendages around its legs and use comb-like spines to groom and clean its body.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Definitely turning the ball over, clean that up. Being stingy with the ball, being able to get the ball in playmakers’ hands and just continue to stay on the same page and move as one.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
He wanted it to be easier to clean up when players dug so deep that they emptied their stomachs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
"Anybody who wants to walk into a construction site that's nice and clean and sparkling, it's our honour to have you do so," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
His outstretched paw closed around a leafy branch, wrenching him to a stop just before his fist shaved the bough clean.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Instead of his house, we were at a New Age event venue in a strip mall that also contains an apothecary, a dry cleaner, and a head shop.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
“Lyft also has a cleaner balance sheet with $900 million in total debt versus $23.5 billion for Uber,” Lemonides said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
So if cleaner air is only responsible for part of the recent acceleration in global warming, what else is at work?
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
It pivoted from powering the site with natural-gas turbines to using cleaner, quieter fuel cells from Bloom Energy, up to 2.45 gigawatts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“Well, let’s go upstairs where we can talk over old times. That old clock cleaner still around?”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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“Even when you have the cleanest case—the cleanest possible case where everyone agrees the bad thing happened—it takes years,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
They also argued that trade union funding is the "cleanest money in politics" which is "heavily regulated".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
"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
The cleanest way to own the shortage is also the most direct way to own the licensing risk.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
It was beautiful, a shiny line that led to the horizon, a strip of silver cutting through the cleanest gold.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
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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
So why are people so captivated by videos of hoarded homes, crime scene cleans and other extreme clear-outs?
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Plus, Beijing accelerates its buildup in space and a drone maker cleans 28 tons of waste from Mount Everest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Now he cleans him up and makes him comfy,” Jonas told him.
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
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Scented cleaners release terpenes when fragrance compounds evaporate from sprayed droplets or cleaned surfaces.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
“It feels like we just cleaned out our dressing rooms and we’re moving back in,” notes Mays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Once they are cleaned by a conservation specialist, we expect to find out more about the identities and personal narratives of the people buried here.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Oh, sorry, sir,” he said sheepishly before turning back to the others, who immediately lowered their voices and cleaned up their language.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Your mom’s doing a killer job, by the way. Rooms haven’t gotten cleaned this deeply in years.”
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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"By the time you finish cleaning up an indoor space, you've already formed a lot of nanoparticles and inhaled them," says Boor.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
In Kyiv's Solomianskyi district, residents of a typical Soviet-era apartment bock hit by a Russian drone were cleaning up their building -- already worried about what might come next.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Something like a million people vote in this event every year, according to the daytime news segment that I caught at the dentist the other afternoon while getting a tooth cleaning.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
"Importantly, cleaning removes viruses and bacteria from surfaces, but it can also generate invisible air pollution. There's no visible dust or smoke in the air, but these particles are forming."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
I especially loved accompanying him to his cleaning or handyman work or as he ran his errands downtown, where the White people worked.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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