clean
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The conflict fueled sulfuric-acid prices, a chemical crucial for food, metal, paper, computer chips and clean water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
During Dick’s earnings call on Tuesday, Chief Financial Officer Navdeep Gupta said the company was expecting to book pretax charges of up to $750 million to clean up Foot Locker.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
The marsh was built in the 1990s to naturally clean dry-weather urban runoff from San Diego Creek and address the algae blooms that once existed in Upper Newport Bay, according to the water district’s website.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Outside the ward, staff used water to clean the floor, while others rubbed soot and grime off the walls.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Both of us put on clean overalls and shirts.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
She loves her job as an extreme cleaner, but since starting to document her cleaning adventures online, she has found it fascinating how interested other people are in what she does.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Then came paper towels, Method cleaner, dish soap, lime sparkling water and grapefruit-scented antibacterial wipes.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
“The park was cleaner when it had the boats,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Mildred Barreto, a 66-year-old cleaner, still calls him "comandante," meaning commander.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
I say, “You are a lot cleaner than the last time I saw you.”
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
The school with the cleanest record got the mildest outcome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
As Ruthye, Ridley’s crisp British elocution is the cleanest thing in the movie, which is shot by Rob Hardy in shades of mustard smog and latrine brown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
And it said this year's World Cup was likely to be the "cleanest" with about 40–50% of the electricity used expected to come from renewables.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
The reward is the cleanest public market exposure to the only fuel that solves the AI grid problem at scale.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
He had the cleanest fingernails of any man I’d ever seen—it was the male hand in the ad reaching to put the diamond on the Pond’s-caressed female hand.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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
Because demand for the free cleans is so high, they are stationed in New York indefinitely, cleaning around five apartments a day, five days a week.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Bass has credited her Inside Safe program, which cleans encampments and moves people into motel rooms, for driving the recent decline in street sleeping.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
And it cleans up in the third, loyalty revenue, including from credit cards, retail partners, and lounge memberships.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
He borrows some toothpaste, squats at the river, dips his toothbrush into the murky water, and cleans his broken teeth.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
At the shelter, the female dog was cleaned, fed, vaccinated and checked for a microchip, according to county animal services staff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Cornell temporarily closed the kitchen following the incident and had the space professionally cleaned before allowing students to use it again.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
"Are footpaths maintained and cleaned? Does the city ensure they aren't encroached upon?" he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Weisberger said cheap valuations for gold miners as a group were “noteworthy,” and that many of these companies have boosted their profit margins and cleaned up their balance sheets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
The domovoi appeared on the countertop, which had been cleaned since Babulya’s potion-making adventure that morning.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
These phones tend to go through extensive processing, including cleaning and data wiping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
TikTok said the CleanTok community had transformed the mundane task of cleaning into "one of the most-loved and entertaining genres" on its platform.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
"By simplifying the design, we reached a size at which these robots can operate directly in the microbial world - almost like microscopic cleaning devices."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
But they’re off highs of more than $230 reached in 2020, when the pandemic drove demand for hand sanitizer and other cleaning products.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Our shore duties also included cooking and cleaning for the master, and the boys fought over these jobs for the sake of his leftovers, which were far tastier than ours.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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