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Recent Examples of cleanness
Diego Schwartzman, one of South America’s preeminent male players of the past two decades, remembers warming up with a 15-year-old Fonseca ahead of the Rio de Janeiro Open final against Alcaraz in 2022, and being struck by both the cleanness of the youngster’s strike and its inaccuracy.
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Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
The home support, angry at referee Rob Jones throughout, could barely muster an appeal for a penalty given the cleanness of the challenge.
—Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
Copland’s music has a cleanness, a belief that all the parts must function.
—Jane Levere, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
With her brand new red locks separated in a half-up half-down style, Fox brilliantly combines the chaos of a messy bun with the cleanness of parted face-framing strands.
—Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
Our special boosters powerfully break through any type of stain or odor, giving you an all-natural cleanness that leaves your clothes looking and smelling great.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
The sparseness of the production design and cleanness of the editing permit Adkins and Long’s full-tilt gracefulness to be the scene’s primary focus.
—Vulture, 7 Mar. 2023
The reasons include not just gas's relative abundance and cheapness, its cleanness, and its low carbon content compared with coal, but also its flexibility, as a recent Worldwatch report observes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2010
Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
The home support, angry at referee Rob Jones throughout, could barely muster an appeal for a penalty given the cleanness of the challenge.
—Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
Copland’s music has a cleanness, a belief that all the parts must function.
—Jane Levere, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
With her brand new red locks separated in a half-up half-down style, Fox brilliantly combines the chaos of a messy bun with the cleanness of parted face-framing strands.
—Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
Our special boosters powerfully break through any type of stain or odor, giving you an all-natural cleanness that leaves your clothes looking and smelling great.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
The sparseness of the production design and cleanness of the editing permit Adkins and Long’s full-tilt gracefulness to be the scene’s primary focus.
—Vulture, 7 Mar. 2023
The reasons include not just gas's relative abundance and cheapness, its cleanness, and its low carbon content compared with coal, but also its flexibility, as a recent Worldwatch report observes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2010
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cleanness
Noun
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The building owners also identified homelessness, cleanliness, a lack of retail options, and the city’s budget deficit as additional barriers to revitalizing downtown.—
Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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That includes everything from station cleanliness to overhauling the app.—
Nick Caloway,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Government mints produce gold bullion coins to standardized weights (typically one troy ounce), with strict purity requirements and legal tender status in their home country.—
Sharon Wu,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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The series followed the Christian fundamentalist clan who used their television platform to preach purity, modesty and religious devotion.—
Emily St. Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
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Yet our education system, obsessed with correctness, often trains this instinct out of kids.—
Vivienne Ming,
CNBC,
24 Mar. 2026
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We all get hung up in political correctness.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
8 Mar. 2026
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And both recognize the importance of the education of character, the cultivation of decency, and the taming of the dark passions.—
Peter Wehner,
The Atlantic,
23 Mar. 2026
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The Best Actor category, in particular, has honored a wide variety of performance types, from bone-chilling turns like Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) to heroic tributes to human decency like Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).—
Devan Coggan,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Mar. 2026
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This sense of rightness — imperfect, but clarifying — is what gout offers as diagnosis.—
Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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Your rightness would earn you a compressed, airless, spiky situation, like the one your parents had.—
Addie Citchens,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
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Her wealthy new family refuses to extend any of their access or connections to Annie; to them, friendship is nowhere near as important as propriety.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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And a sense of propriety and respect for the office, right?—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Mar. 2026
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This series is to encourage [and] inspire hip hop and remind us all [of] the pureness of hip hop.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Cleanness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleanness. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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