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

He took jobs with employers willing to hire a child without a work permit — sometimes in landscaping and sometimes in housecleaning.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2023

"You could do a bit of housecleaning for a change," Allun teased.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda