sweeping

In the opening monologue, he’s joined by Eddie Murphy, in janitorial coveralls, sweeping up the stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

The EU said Thursday it expects Meta to address "addictive" features of its platforms in Europe, after the tech giant agreed to sweeping limits on teen use of Facebook and Instagram in some US states.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

As part of the settlement agreement, Meta will also make sweeping changes to its services, Facebook and Instagram, including implementing a default two-hour time limit on its apps for users under 18.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

For five weeks, land managers with very opposing views on how the uplands should be managed stood side by side battling the enormous blaze which was sweeping through the Cairngorms.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

I was fast asleep until Mrs. Thomas came into the den with a broom and started sweeping.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

It’s peanut sweepings, as Homer Simpson would say.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022

But sweepings demands for a more equitable society were left for later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2020

“The paper of ‘A sketch of the viscera,’ c.1515–16, contains fragments of wood chips, hair, wool and insect parts, possibly sweepings from the mill floor,” explains the Royal Collection, in its statement.

From Fox News ● Jan. 29, 2019

It was like mild Ovaltine mixed with floor sweepings.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2017

He had poured that slim little ingot, now lying yonder in the courtyard beside the drawplate, from just such sweepings as this.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw