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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
“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
They spread around them in neat rows that went on forever.
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
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
It’s neater and easier that way because intersectionality is messy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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
Why is everything neater in my head than in real life?
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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
Even the neatest gray flannel shift had a hunk of hairy shearling flapping down one leg.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 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
“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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