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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
The measure passed the Senate 86-11 in August and cleared the House 262-159 on Wednesday, sending it to Trump for his signature.—
Samya Kullab,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Sep. 2026 During the episode, Stiles revealed that Parton had cleared the use of the song prior to her death in August.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
17 Sep. 2026 Abruzzo has also been a vocal critic of the Protect College Sports Act (PCSA), which cleared a key procedural hurdle when the Senate voted 74-24 on Tuesday to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
17 Sep. 2026 Squilla said councilmembers will resume their session when they are cleared to return to the building.—
Frederick Sutton Sinclair,
CBS News,
17 Sep. 2026 He was later medically cleared and transported back to the Chesterfield County Detention Center.—
Kc Baker,
PEOPLE,
17 Sep. 2026 Mario Williams was the last Dolphins player who cleared the concussion protocol in a week, and that was back in 2016.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
17 Sep. 2026 Around for decades, red-light therapy has traditionally been used to treat chronic muscle and joint pain and various injuries, and has shown cosmetic benefits for skin and facial care, purposes for which it’s cleared by the FDA.—
Mirin Fader,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2026 The mayor faced the crowd and cleared his throat, waiting for the room to quiet.—Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2026
So So Fed opened for Sunday dinner — and nobody had assembled the siu mai dumplings.
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Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
19 Sep. 2026
Innovative methodologies, including demography and quantitative analysis, folklore, material culture, oral history, and family reconstitution opened new windows into the past.
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Drew Gilpin Faust,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Sep. 2026
Robert Eppley, a small business owner whose sports car repair shop is located nearby, said he was relieved to see the city taking action.
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Brad Hamilton,
CBS News,
16 Sep. 2026
Vitello said Devers has dealt with the injury for several years and was relieved when it was finally diagnosed and a long-term solution was offered to him.
He was released from the Rio Grande detention center on August 28 after his family paid a $20,000 bond.
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Felipe Cardenas,
New York Times,
9 Sep. 2026
Sixty years after television audiences first tuned in to see the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, an astronaut on board the International Space Station has paid tribute to Star Trek by flying the badge of the franchise’s latest fictional captain.
The defense also wrote that Puig should be acquitted on the charge of lying to federal investigators.
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Sam Blum,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2026
If acquitted for lack of criminal responsibility, Clancy would then face a potentially indefinite series of commitment orders confining her to a secure state mental health facility.
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