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clearing

noun as in gap in area

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City officials and local residents who are still clearing rubble from destroyed buildings four months after the tornado struck said the experiment isn’t going well.

In the final minutes of the longest day of the year, several hundred people in a clearing cheered every hiker who came out of the woods.

It featured Bryn clearing out his home when he stumbles upon a camcorder tape labelled "The Fishing Trip".

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Once retired, friends and neighbors asked for help organizing files and clearing clutter.

A spokesperson added that the rise in enforcement visits in the past year was due to reasons including new charges for homes left empty over a year, and clearing a backlog of cases.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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