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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
First responders cleared about 50 homes in flood-prone areas, said Jerel Haley, the Kerrville police chief.—
Dalia Faheid,
CNN Money,
17 July 2026 If the recent addition is cleared who of the three 7footers gets the nod?—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
17 July 2026 Four of the year’s six months have now cleared the INR1,000 crore mark, a sign of more consistent output across the calendar than in recent years.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
17 July 2026 With the Germans having fought back from 2-0 down to level in Bern, the ball is cleared only as far as Rahn on the edge of the Hungary box.—
Adam Hurrey,
New York Times,
17 July 2026 Abbott said early on, over 80 people were cleared from campgrounds.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
17 July 2026 Christensen was cleared for contact by doctors earlier this month following Achilles surgery, as The Charlotte Observer first reported on July 7.—
Mike Kaye,
Charlotte Observer,
17 July 2026 While motorists often witness the immediate aftermath of a collision, the consequences frequently continue after the scene is cleared.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
16 July 2026 So far, releasing the conservation easements to allow construction has been cleared by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and other state agencies.—
Scott Maxwell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 July 2026
While there does still seem to be a clear advantage — in five of the past seven finals, the team playing their semi-final first has won — there have at least been two examples of the eventual champions coming from the second semi-final.
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Michael Cox,
New York Times,
14 July 2026
Fort Worth city officials say the goal is to create rules that protect neighborhoods while setting clear standards for future data center development.
The complex is owned by a real estate investment trust, Highlands REIT, and was opened in the 2000s.
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Alan Gionet,
CBS News,
14 July 2026
This was Charlesbank, which opened in 1891 and was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted as a satellite to his Emerald Necklace chain of parks in Boston and Brookline.
Vogue is committed to reporting and riffing on the global fashion conversation—always filtered through the lens of culture and what’s happening in the world at large.
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Vogue,
Vogue,
14 July 2026
The shepherd observed as Underwood boiled and stirred and filtered his brew.
Zarrab, who was born in Iran but was moved to Turkey with his family as a toddler, was initially arrested in 2013 as part of a sweeping anticorruption probe overseen by Turkish law enforcement officials — but he was quickly freed.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
14 July 2026
Khanna said he and his team were ultimately freed after communication between the US Embassy and a high-level official in the Israeli government.
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