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Perpendicular to that, there’s a lunchtime slop-bowl corridor, offering Just Salad, Dig, Cava, and Sweetgreen in one neat little row.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
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
He is neat on the ball and unafraid to take risks - a return of 15 goals and 21 assists for Liverpool, across all competitions, showcases what he can do.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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
For five days, girls in fourth grade through seventh grade from all over Brevard County learned all kinds of neat stuff about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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
His words are neater than mine, but they look good together.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
Instead it was decided one big announcement would be the neatest option.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
I never thought he was the neatest person.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2022
The union drive was far from the neatest thing to roll off Chipotle’s famous burrito assembly line.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2022
Even the neatest gray flannel shift had a hunk of hairy shearling flapping down one leg.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2022
“He always has the neatest desk in the class. He’d better or he’ll hear from his uncle. Do you know him?”
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
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