cleans (up)

present tense third-person singular of clean (up)
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as in cleans house
to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff you're expected to clean up after you use the workroom

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cleans (up)
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  • This pledge erases dissenting Israeli voices, legitimizes falsehoods, and shields Hamas from blame.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But how often can the Pats bank on Drake Maye enjoying the best start of his career, while Antonio Gibson erases a Dolphins punt return touchdown with his own return touchdown on the next play?
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
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  • Polysulfides dissolve and migrate, which degrades battery performance and shortens its lifespan.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
  • That opens capacity, shortens timelines and changes how teams spend their time.
    Robbie Morrison, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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  • Bonacini wants gold — a sterilizing cure that eradicates every trace of the virus and cannot return.
    Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2025
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  • Instead, this measure abolishes them.
    Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The Iranian parliament has just approved a law that abolishes prison sentences for those who had to leave Iran illegally.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2025
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  • Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and a former Google executive, has warned in the past that there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI wipes out humans.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025
  • That timeline could shrink if a massive fraud wipes out public confidence in the Internet.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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  • Most of the time, a person’s immune system identifies and destroys these cells.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Jake and Vince have an unbreakable bond that destroys everyone and everything, but as Law points out, their issues are rooted in their early family life.
    Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Cleans (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleans%20%28up%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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