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James McAtee: Getting his chance after Elliot Anderson's move to Manchester City and was very tidy on the ball in an impressive performance.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 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

Scattered along the walls of the studio were tidy heaps of scarves and mesh, rainbows of stripes, every shade of ballet pink, Uggs of every height.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

I left my shoes by the front door and noticed how tidy Baba had kept everything.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

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

Tears pour down Paul’s face as he tidies up the disheveled uniform looking for words to say goodbye.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 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

Where Americans think of graphically violent procedurals as comfort watches, the British prefer their TV homicides to be much tidier: Serious violence occurs offscreen.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

"Being a little tidier and keep the bogeys off the scorecard, I think I can have a good weekend and get closer to the leaders."

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025

Lily pulled out a thick album with a fabric cover, much tidier than the battered Big Blue Book Chicken loved so much.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

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

Jameis Winston, the infamous, reckless turnover machine, threw for five touchdowns in the tidiest 20-pass performance you’ll ever witness.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2021

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

Some of the tidiest nurses on the ward lived in stews in their own rooms, and she would not have been surprised to see a new version of Cecilia’s old chaos.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

It is not simply that the curators have tidied up before letting the public in: Woolf’s “writing lodge” at Monk’s House in Sussex, England, for instance, is suspiciously clear of crumpled envelopes and broken cigarette-holders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

That night, Gil tidied up around the store, cleaned the bathroom, got ready to close for the day.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

Molting peacocks squawked in the distance and a Pacific breeze whispered through the eucalyptus as flamingo keeper Liz Gibbons tidied her station at the San Francisco Zoo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025

Second half we tidied up that defensive bit, but we weren't able to adjust to go and take some field position and get back in the game.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025

As I served the hot chocolate and tidied the chamber, Madam rubbed her face with Venetian Bloom Water beauty wash, said to remove wrinkles.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

The tidying expert from BBC One's Sort Your Life Out once helped an ex-boyfriend clear up and organise his mother's home after she died.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

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

“Mostly cleaning and tidying rooms, making the beds—that sort of thing.”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy