cleanness

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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. 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
Noun
  • Pikio’s, located inside a Miami Beach hostel, had cleanliness issues.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Other rankings focused on accessibility, cleanliness, facilities, and more.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Their system, Aepnus Technology’s waste-to-reagent electrolyzer, has now logged thousands of hours converting sodium sulfate into high-purity caustic soda and sulfuric acid.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Left-wing antisemitism, which cast Jews as greedy capitalists, existed as well, especially in France, but Jew-baiting remained primarily a right-wing pursuit, the work of illiberal nativists who saw a tiny minority as polluting the purity of their racial or religious communities.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So woke and political correctness are basically the same thing.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In contrast, today there are many million individual pieces of evidence in every branch of biology, all of which support and none of which refute the essential correctness of Darwin’s theory.
    D. Scott Schmid, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Iger is threading the needle by safeguarding Disney’s brand as one that will continue to be guided by decency and respect, no matter how overheated political rhetoric becomes at times—on both sides.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Nicole Kidman adds just the right amount of menace as a villainous taxidermist, but the heart of the movie lies in its celebration of kindness, decency and family—values that feel refreshingly radical in our cynical times.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • By war’s end he was not only convinced of the moral rightness of Black suffrage and civil rights, but of their essential necessity and urgency.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As these conflicts are starting to get heated up, the politicians themselves lose track of any kind of propriety or bounds about what can and should be done in order to pursue your own political agenda.
    Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
  • As expected, because of propriety, Barrett didn’t discuss any current cases that have been before the Supreme Court, including the order earlier this week to lift limitations on immigration stops in Los Angeles.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Cleanness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleanness. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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