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Recent Examples of cleared
Adjective
Not all pads are alike, but a footprint on the larger side involves five to ten acres of cleared, packed ground that serves as the hub for drilling equipment, which can include wellheads, pump jacks, tanks, wastewater storage pits, trailers, and flare stacks.—
Alex Heard,
Outside,
4 Mar. 2026 What counts as a cleared sidewalk?—
Quinn Clark,
jsonline.com,
1 Dec. 2025
Verb
Police cleared a blockade at Assas university, a top French law school in central Paris, on Friday morning.—
Makini Brice,
Arkansas Online,
10 Oct. 2026 Bomb disposal specialists cleared the vehicle before armed officers discovered a fence breach and located the men inside.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
9 Oct. 2026 The Giddons cleared the merchandise off of the main floor and installed a small stage, video monitor and bar for the party, which drew hundreds of industry executives, city officials and customers.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
9 Oct. 2026 He was expected to be cleared this week, but still has not been deemed probable.—
Chris Hays,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Oct. 2026 Though the scene was cleared by late in the afternoon, there remain questions about how the little boy fell from the third-floor window.—
Jesse Zanger,
CBS News,
8 Oct. 2026 Before taking office, Greer had pledged to avoid certain matters involving former clients for one year unless ethics officials cleared his participation.—
Luke Fountain,
CNBC,
7 Oct. 2026 The parole decision will become final after 120 days, as long as it is cleared by the parole board’s legal office, and then it is sent to the governor, who has 30 days to decide whether to reverse the parole decision.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Oct. 2026 Addressing the main bottleneck The decision to scale up manufacturing follows a major scientific hurdle cleared just weeks ago.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2026
But national Democrats have been eying the race for months due to the state’s large Black population, and Obama’s ad is a clear effort to juice turnout.
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Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
12 Oct. 2026
Here, next to the crystal-clear waters of Lake Keowee in Sunset, South Carolina, adventure and refinement exist in effortless harmony.
Her most recent work, Elegies (2023), a documentary about Hong Kong poetry, opened Hong Kong International Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Horse Awards.
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Liz Shackleton,
Deadline,
11 Oct. 2026
Portrait Roma, the intimate flagship of the Portrait Collection, opened in 2006.
When a county judge put the brakes on what would be the largest data center in California, ruling the whole project needed extensive environmental review, Kristian Salgado was relieved.
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Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Oct. 2026
The White Sox loaded the bases in the sixth inning before Erik Sabrowski relieved Williams and struck out Murakami.
Their personal lives are often showcased in a way that’s entirely filtered through the entertainment company’s lens.
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Nicole Fell,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Oct. 2026
Techniques popular in Ukraine and surrounding countries have steadily filtered into the rest of Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with salons all over the world now offering Ukrainian-style manicures.
In the latter half of the 1970s, Montgomery played a victim in A Case of Rape, accused and acquitted murderer Lizzie Borden in The Legend of Lizzie Borden and a pioneer woman in The Awakening Land.
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Justine Fisher,
PEOPLE,
12 Oct. 2026
Among those tried was Anthony (Tony) White; though he had earlier been acquitted of any connection with the robbery, in October 1995 he was found liable, alongside McAvoy and Robinson, for the full £26 million value of the gold.
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