clear-cut
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So why are the results so clear-cut, and what are the financial and psychological factors at play?
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The clear-cut way to get a raise is to land a new job.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
John Mozeliak is in Anaheim for one clear-cut reason: to set the foundation for the Angels to get back on track.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026
While there is no clear-cut way to determine conclusively whether a stock is the most overbought stock in history, here’s what the numbers suggest about Sandisk.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
For the other nations in the confederacy, the benefits of allying with either side were not clear-cut.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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California, biomass energy advocates say, has struggled to get past its distrust of the technology, given traditional biomass’ checkered past of clear-cutting forests and polluting poorer communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
Bottom trawling is a fishing method that’s extremely destructive to sensitive habitat types; it’s been compared to clear-cutting forests to catch rabbits.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024
And most ecologists regard degradation as the consequence of the type of large scale clear-cutting that is nearly the universal method of logging in Canada.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
"Unleashing forest companies to build hundreds of kilometers more road to do more clear-cutting results in a worse situation, not a better one," Foy said.
From Reuters ● Jun. 12, 2023
Horace Walpole spoke in his usual clear-cutting style of Mr Charles Pylades and Mr John Orestes.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
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