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clear

[kleer] / klɪər /








VERB
pass over, often by jumping
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The agency said firefighters were "aggressively attacking the fire from ground and air" and issued repeated pleas for people to stay clear of the area.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

It isn’t clear where this would be legal for use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Puerto has written about how she got pregnant in 2022 and had no clear way to leave the state for an abortion, especially since she was helping to take care of her ailing mother.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh has made it clear he wants to revamp the central bank’s approach to communication.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

I remind myself that, like it or not, I have to find a way to clear my head of all the drama and chaos.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

"And the need to refill those stocks will mean energy prices remain elevated for a period, even when disruption in the Middle East clears."

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Treasury yields fell from fresh intraday highs as an auction of $39 billion in 10-year notes clears at the highest yield in 26 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

This treatment clears space in the bone marrow for the incoming cells, but it can be extremely taxing, particularly for older or medically frail patients.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

The settlement clears the way for Paramount’s roughly $111-billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

He clears his throat and reads off his tablet.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

By combining observations from telescopes in Australia, the United States, India, South Africa, and space, the scientists pieced together a clearer picture of how black holes behave as they consume matter.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

I was able to take your details and run them through the free version of the software on the Boldin platform, and that made the picture a little clearer.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

This point is even clearer when it comes to geopolitical threats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

But De Barbeyrac said the improvements become clearer the more you play.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The depth and apparent intractability of the problem became much clearer during the debates surrounding the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

The clearest route to shareholder gains would be lower costs for serving existing customers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

"The findings provide some of the clearest human evidence to date that anti-amyloid therapies may limit the accumulation of tau and slow the brain changes that lead to memory loss and cognitive decline."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

The announcement represents the clearest sign to date that Chinese car companies are preparing to battle Western and other Asian automakers in Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Investors track annualized revenue at OpenAI and Anthropic as the clearest signal of demand for artificial intelligence, and the figures help justify enormous spending on data centers as well as the AI-fueled stock market rally.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

She led the little frog to the clearest part of the river.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

Once players were cleared to return to practice after a long break, Dieffenbach routinely ran a route, caught a pass and threw the ball back to the start of the drill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

The regions cleared of amyloid showed little or no buildup of tau tangles, another protein abnormality strongly associated with brain cell damage and declining memory.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

After our office was cleared, we were all sent home, only to be told to return the next day to drop off our contaminated clothes in trash bags.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The following year when Singapore saw a bad bout of haze, authorities issued summonses to several Indonesian companies thought to have cleared land by burning, in a bid to prosecute them under the new law.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

He cleared his throat, determined to get through this as quickly as possible.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Toxic smog is choking millions across Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, with authorities partly blaming the agricultural clearing method known as "slash and burn" for compounding the intense haze.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Istanbul municipal teams and firefighters were carrying out cleanup operations at schools, football pitches, garages and other sites on Thursday, pumping water out of flooded areas and clearing mud, an AFP photographer reported.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The results also suggest that clearing amyloid thoroughly, particularly early in the disease, could help limit tau accumulation and slow the progression of brain damage.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Art of Play said it has contacted Clarkson privately in hopes of clearing up the dispute.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

From a clearing on a ridge, above forks of Coldwater Creek, he had a view of Mount St. Helens.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone


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