- present participle of clear.
clearing
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But the traditional exchanges like Xetra and LSE have strict inclusion rules, particularly at the clearing house, as to what they will allow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Well, then the sound of television writer Joe Wiseman clearing his throat over and over again might as well be Gilbert Gottfried’s laugh scratching against a chalkboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
She added that authorities had been clearing many of the landslides "surprisingly fast".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
“Whatever the mechanism, real rates are very high. At some point that is simply the clearing price for fiscally dominant economies trying to attract enough private capital to fund enormous sovereign borrowing,” he says.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Torak couldn’t see beyond the firelight, but he knew that the clearing, too, was a wreck of snapped saplings and trampled bracken.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Most of the Polish villages had disappeared from the map; sometimes the only signs they ever existed are the apple trees left behind in fields and forest clearings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Over the past year, G. has been no stranger to encampment clearings.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025
Yatai stressed to us that they are not the same as these rougher operations, some little more than a collection of sheds built in forest clearings.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2025
As asylum seekers and organizers braced for the clearing, the appointed hour came and went with no police presence or trucks to haul garbage, as homeless encampment clearings usually have.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Below, in one of the little clearings in the brush lay the red pony.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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