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The climate’s messy reality can collide with neat story lines about how the coming months will play out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“It was really neat to see it unfold because he sent an initial list and we were like, ‘Wow, this is great,’ ” LeMaire says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
"Our experiment provides a very neat way to study these multiple phases."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Al-Dabba and his sons, donning protective netted hats and wielding metal bee smokers, gently inspect the neat rows of teeming hives.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
The archway wasn’t very deep, and it was paved over with neat rows of stone rectangles.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
As I thinned out the garage shelves—recycling old paint, giving away a box of used electric outlets, listing plumbing supplies on Craigslist’s “free stuff” section—the shelves grew neater.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Why is your instinct as a musician to go for something neater?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
Roger Rose, from Burton Latimer, where Kettering's ground is, is repairing a previous "chicken wire" fence with neater plastic mesh.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024
He was dressed in a suit and tie, with his once signature curly, unkempt hair cut into a neater trim.
From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2023
I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Perhaps Honeck’s neatest trick was his ability to conjure lightness and amplitude at the same time.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2024
“My mother kept it for Amelia. She thought it was the neatest thing. It was never about that boy she wouldn’t even name,” Twiggs recounted.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
The new study is “one of the neatest papers, ever” for revealing this overlooked anatomical feature, says Brock Fenton, a retired bat biologist and echolocation expert at the University of Western Ontario.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 26, 2022
“We would listen to the NBC News roundup,” he later said in a Channel 4 profile, “and I just thought that sounded like the neatest thing in the world to do.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2021
He was voted neatest junior boy last year, and Papa had hugged him so tight that Jaja thought his back had snapped.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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