clean slate

noun

: a person's record (as from a school or a job) that shows no evidence of any problems, broken rules, etc. : a clean record

Everyone who comes to this school starts with a clean slate.

Examples of clean slate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The grading and retrofit are funded with a $120 million cobbled by the county from local, state and federal sources to prepare a clean slate for investors large and small to build out the vision of the plan. —Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026

The actress is closely connected to Davies and his production company, having played Rose Tyler, and a new production company will probably want a clean slate. —Matthew Razak, Space.com, 10 June 2026

Single yellow cards were reset after the quarterfinals, meaning that a player with one yellow card started the semifinal with a clean slate. —Andrew Pereira, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 June 2026

Everyone just gets treated exactly the same, always going into that villa with a clean slate, going in exactly as things are in the villa because the villa kind of is its own little bubble, its own little world. —Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2026

Rhymes for clean slate

• abate
• airfreight
• await
• baseplate
• berate
• birthdate
• birthrate
• bookplate
• borate
• breastplate
• bromate
• casemate