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clean

Definition for clean

adjective as in sterile

adjective as in chaste, virtuous

adjective as in precise, sharp

Strongest matches

clear, neat, plain, simple

adjective as in complete, thorough

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perfect

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absolute, entire, final, total, whole

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“We want to clean up everything we possibly can as quickly as we can safely.”

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But these RNAs then need to be cleaned and checked to make sure they meet the requirements of the pharmaceutical industry.

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Yet through a remarkable process of musical transformation, Lang has become a purifier, his music increasingly having turned cool, clean, eloquent, elemental.

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EPA—that cleaned up prior judicial messes and reined in the feds by stripping its claim to any “significant nexus” to navigable waters and tightening the definition of wetlands.

“Retribution is seductive like that, promising a clean line between good and evil. But it’s an illusion,” she eventually concludes in her book.

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