housecleaning
Example Sentences
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This wasn’t a major housecleaning but more like a culling of online subscriptions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
The housecleaning could delay processing the income statements because the financial team had been reshuffled, the source said, adding "with some firings, rediscovering the past gets even more complicated."
From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2023
Organizations on the left and right created a critical mass for a housecleaning, and in 1938 Shaw was recalled, the nation’s first recall of a big-city mayor.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023
The initiative comes after a period of financial housecleaning for the basilica, after Pope Francis put it under a special commissioner in 2020 to investigate its finances and update the statutes of its governing administration.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
No waitressing, nursing homes, or housecleaning this time; I’m psyched for a change—retail, maybe, or factory work.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
