cleanly
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In a tense opening set, Sabalenka bristled with frustration early on as unforced errors crept into her game while Pegula settled quickly and struck the ball cleanly.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Pulling in the language from the posting shows recruiters and hiring managers you’re a genuine fit for the role — and helps your résumé read cleanly to an applicant-tracking system along the way.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
It can be made cleanly by cleaving the hydrogen out of water using clean electricity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
It maps on pretty cleanly because a lot of the cases that people really like involve the court enforcing federal legislation.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Across the East River, like a fairy city made of silver cardboard, the skyscrapers loomed cleanly.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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Under the painful surface-blur of wretchedness and fatigued debauchery, she traced reflectively the lineaments of the younger and cleanlier countenance she had seen a few months before.
From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
It has a higher back than the domestic hog, and cleanlier habits; an odoriferous gland on the loins, and three-toed hind feet.
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton
To this Gargantua answered, that he had taken such a course for that himself, that in all the country there was not to be found a cleanlier boy than he.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux
His hair and beard were freshly trimmed, and he had a cleanlier look than we have hitherto noticed; moreover, his expression had lost a little of its habitual sullen truculence.
From Till the Clock Stops by J. J. (John Joy) Bell
Nature would do that cleanlier; and waxwork more powerfully!
From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Their cleanliest monthly average is 54 tons of dirt to the square mile.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The gentle Maldivians are among Asia's best-fed, cleanliest and healthiest people.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Their churches and chapels are the best built, the finest adorned, and the cleanliest kept, of any churches in the world.
From Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid. by Lady Anne Harrison Fanshawe
The sheep, the cleanliest of creatures, here made a symbol of those who have all their sins washed away in the fountain of redeeming mercy.
From New Tabernacle Sermons by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
It forms one of the cleanliest and most beautiful shades, and when in blossom gives a rich prospect, and sends abroad a delicious fragrance.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck