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clean up

verb as in clear

verb as in hit the jackpot

verb as in make

verb as in net

verb as in return

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A potentially greater challenge for the SRF is coming at year-end, when efforts to clean up balance sheets for financial reports can boost competition for overnight loans.

Exxon Mobil said it had been seeking a buyer for several months and it would clean up and then demolish the site once production ends.

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"Most current treatments focus on neurons or try to prevent the formation of amyloid plaques. This study suggests that enhancing astrocytes' natural ability to clean up could be just as important."

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When the New Deal put a cop on the Wall Street beat, Dillon cleaned up his act and lived long enough to outlast the memory of his tawdry methods.

“Oppenheimer” cleaned up at the box office on a three-hour length, too.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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