clean
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With the GLS method, however, the researchers created Ti3C2Cl2, a version with only chlorine atoms arranged in a clean, ordered structure and no detectable impurities.
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026
The prose is clean and lucid, characters and cityscapes fully rendered, and “The Forsyte Saga” creates the pleasurable illusion that it might never end.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Wiseman later called back down to mission control in Houston to ask how to clean the windows, as the astronauts' enthusiasm to see into space had left them dirty.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
I sat at her bedside and came clean: I followed the peaceniks on a mission to Cuba.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
The officers found her young teenage sons, Ferdie and Henry Jr., well dressed, clean, and fed.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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