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Recent Examples of cleanness
In Experiment City, scientific progress and a collective ethos have had counterintuitive social consequences: Citizens occupy uniform studio apartments, becoming increasingly insular and fastidious about the cleanness of their bodies.
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Madeleine Feeny, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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
His style prized cleanness, and secure but never imperious beauty.
—Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Mar. 2022
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
Madeleine Feeny, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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
His style prized cleanness, and secure but never imperious beauty.
—Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Mar. 2022
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
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The food and drink website Tasting Table recently ranked the best buffet in all 50 states, evaluating customer reviews and recommendations while focusing on quality, variety, freshness, cleanliness and menus that balance standout specialties with broad appeal.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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Cleanliness Turtles are messy animals and require consistent attention to the cleanliness of their enclosures.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Jan. 2026
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Additionally, its purple (not blue) color, as well as its sheer mass at that level of purity means that in this stone’s formation, the conditions of the earth’s crust at that specific point under Sri Lanka were set up perfectly to generate not a tiny perfect thing, but a great big perfect thing.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Such channels could still have ads and provide a new revenue stream for Netflix, while a TCM channel could keep its sponsorships without ads to maintain the purity of the TCM brand.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
21 Jan. 2026
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The same logic applies to technical domains, such as writing functional code, performing a surgical procedure, or building a financial model, where expertise is revealed not merely by correctness but by speed, reliability, and economy of effort.—
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
4 Jan. 2026
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The amateur journalist believes Dale Washberg, the black-sheep son of a powerful local family, has been murdered, and Lee is bound and determined to get to the truth, bring down the corrupt Washberg family, and, as an ancillary benefit, bask in the smug satisfaction of his own correctness.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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In recent weeks, Trump has again revealed himself to be a stain on basic decency and humanity, demonstrating a depraved indifference to suffering and a laser-like focus on gold and glory.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
22 Jan. 2026
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But Minnesota will remain an island of decency, of justice, of community, and of peace.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
22 Jan. 2026
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The absolute rightness of being together.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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For the most part, though, his attention to detail and his feeling for structure yielded readings of inherent, inarguable rightness.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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For decades, the Supreme Court and Congress have recognized the propriety of administrative warrants in cases of immigration enforcement.—
Charlie De Mar,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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For decades, the Supreme Court and Congress have recognized the propriety of administrative warrants in cases of immigration enforcement.—
Luke Barr,
ABC News,
21 Jan. 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 29 Jan. 2026.
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