tidy
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He puts the authorities' leniency down partly to the tidy and spartan way he operates his business: a bench, umbrella, card reader and table that he folds up and carts away each evening.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Ben White: A tidy display in possession, although he made little impact at either end of the pitch.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
It was a strange little society of meats that belonged neither behind the butcher counter nor among the premium lunch meats — the thin-sliced turkey in its tidy package, the glossy hunk of honey ham.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
The funds focus on lower-risk infrastructure businesses, which act as a tidy diversifier between bonds and equities, portfolio manager Bertrand Cliquet told MarketWatch in an interview on Monday.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Everything on Dr. Z’s supply list was arranged in a tidy row.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
Moriarty figures heavily in the opening episodes of “Sherlock & Daughter” too, although Dougray Scott lends a malevolent scruff to him that Park’s interpretation tidies up.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
Watch: Mouse tidies up man's shed every night.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2024
Early in the opening story, “Blessed Deliverance,” the unnamed narrator tidies up his friend Antonio’s room as a kindness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
Although the deception predictably comes to a head, as Joy’s husband and daughter act on their suspicions that something is awry, “Call Jane” tidies that mess with baffling brevity.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022
We put on our uniforms and sit down to our breakfast of tea and sesame-topped bizkochikos, our favorite biscuits, while Mima tidies the kitchen and Papa reads the newspaper with a pair of thick glasses.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
Given that gentrification, almost by definition, transforms high-disorder areas into tidier ones, and given that the process appears to be continuing in New York and other cities, hasn’t Mr. Gottlieb got matters exactly backward?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Sure, it would be tidier, and feel better, to get all of one’s support from like-minded individuals.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2026
Councils have tried various methods to make this tidier, ranging from placing vinyl stickers on pavements showing where bin bags should be placed, to repurposing plastic storage containers normally made for grit or dog waste.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
Many natives can be pruned for a tidier appearance, though you may sacrifice some habitat value.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
She picked up her chained dæmon, whose baleful eyes glared at Lord Asriel over her shoulder, and went through to make herself tidier.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Miley Cyrus, “Flowers” The tidiest self-care bop since Pharrell Williams’ “Happy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
It's not the tidiest grinder I've ever used, but it's the best for brewed coffee.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2022
“He has the tidiest and most orderly brain, with the greatest capacity for storing facts, of any man living. . . . All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2018
The book was shaped, in collaboration with the composers, by Rick Elice, a writer of “Jersey Boys,” that tidiest of blockbuster jukebox musicals, as well as the ecstatic story-theater piece “Peter and the Starcatcher.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2018
If their disappearance was the work of shamblers, they were the tidiest shamblers I’ve ever heard of.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
NBC’s chief had tidied his desk for the conversation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
One robot tidied cupboards and wiped surfaces, while others put orange juice and milk in the fridge, threw away empty packaging and loaded the dishwasher.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
That night, Gil tidied up around the store, cleaned the bathroom, got ready to close for the day.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
"I cleaned and tidied the house completely, said goodbye to it, and cried for 15 minutes. Then we left Tehran," they said.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
I had tidied myself, I went down to Dr. Seward’s study.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Some colleagues wish he had picked a less loaded term for what they hope is an overdue tidying of operational lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Beijing cleaner Lin Meiqiong found her work a little easier the day she was paired with an unlikely new colleague -- a tall, wheeled robot with AI-powered tidying skills.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Donning my academic editor title, I imagined myself tasked with the act of tidying, turning teenage madness, drama, beauty into writing that is still dramatic and beautiful—just grammatically correct.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
"It tends to be this daily thing of resetting the house, and cleaning and tidying," said the 32-year-old mum-of-two.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025
Then Tree-ear set about tidying up the area under the bridge.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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