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"Farming is not going well because the soil is not clean," he says.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

This case could have been an opportunity for the Supreme Court to draw the line and say: Your hands are not clean.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2025

This will do a great job of filtering ash particles produced by the recent wildfire but will not clean chemicals from the air, said El-Hasan.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2025

Others complain the wire is still not clean or long enough to prevent internal disorder in the wire from triggering spurious signals.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 20, 2023

Basically I had to do stuff like touch my callused finger against a dirty surface and then not clean it or put a Band-Aid on.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green




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