clarify
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Corinne Mills, joint managing director of Personal Career Management, says that it can be worth asking an interviewer to clarify any weird questions, perhaps by repeating the question back to them.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Larger, carefully designed studies will be needed to clarify the effectiveness of phage therapy and identify which patients are most likely to benefit.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
"While this work introduces some enhancements, much of it is intended to strengthen, clarify and build on the procedures and support already in place."
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
A spokeswoman for the agency didn’t clarify when the policy would go into effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Quickly I drew stick man and stick tree side by side, to clarify.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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The gentler Mr. Conlon clarifies that these “Navy SEALs are humanists. The most essential ingredient is a stance of gratitude and love toward the tradition.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The proposed regulations unveiled this week “really clarifies a lot of what employers were waiting for,” said Dorian Smith, leader of Mercer’s law and policy practice.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
It’s not that the clothes were ever disappointing, she clarifies — it’s just that the anticipation was such a big part of the process.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Locke, 22, jokes that a lot of the time people are just handed producer credits, but clarifies "we actually put some effort in and took it seriously".
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
“Interfering with you or your opponent,” her father clarifies.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Lower energy prices eased inflation concerns, while the clarified political situation supported a return to risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
New excavations have clarified the existence of a multi-phase ditch, rampart and wall built across a narrow section of the Oued Beht ridge between the river and a ravine.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
But annual reports record far lower totals, among the opaque details activists wanted clarified.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Last December, Gomez clarified a shift in her vocal tone, telling fans on Instagram, “sometimes things happen.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Some of the clarified syrup was boiled until it turned to sugar and was molded into fancy shapes.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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Nevertheless, Sainz and Williams were subsequently spoken to by F1, after which Williams put out a statement "clarifying" his remarks.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The system then worked, with Alaska courts clarifying the ballot, Sen. Sullivan using the spoiler as an argument against Peltola in the campaign, and the media uncovering what had happened.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026
Imagining what they might say, and how they’d want to be remembered, in a decade or more has a way of clarifying what’s really important.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
"I practiced international transaction law, with all the appropriate credentials," she told Newsweek, without clarifying whether she held a US law license.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Added to all her other chores was the task of clarifying the syrup brought up to the house.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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