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They’ve shown their boys a path to success but each must find their own way, though having a doctor in the family while playing football is pretty neat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
It’s a neat trick — even when Vance does it.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
On the roof, Waddy checks on hundreds of condensers arranged in neat rows to help cool the facility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
A mechanism that requires data centre developers to match their projects, with new green generation capacity being commissioned, would be a neat way of mitigating the risks but that requires government or regulatory intervention.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
An Elder male with neat braids and a navy-blue bandana gave him a hug.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
I grew a little neater as I aged, especially during Covid, but was never what anyone would call fastidious.
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 striped tie, with his once signature curly, unkempt hair cut into a neater trim.
From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2023
People knew a lot more about dying inside the hospital and made a much neater, more orderly job of it.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Instead it was decided one big announcement would be the neatest option.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The union drive was far from the neatest thing to roll off Chipotle’s famous burrito assembly line.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2022
And, here’s the neatest narrative trick of all: As Christie characteristically did, de Gramont hides the solution to the mystery of “The Christie Affair” in plain sight.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2022
López-Alt’s neatest trick, though, is his ability to get a nation that hates learning about science to devour a riveting explanation of how salt dissolves meat protein and makes your burger patty sticky and yucky.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2021
It was not handwriting, or if it was, it was the neatest, most regular handwriting she had ever seen.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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