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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
Stagnant smoke dropped air quality this week in the Pacific Northwest until winds Thursday and Friday cleared the worst of it from western locations, like Seattle and Portland, Oregon.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
8 Aug. 2026 Once the ground is cleared and loosened, work in a layer of topsoil, compost, or fertilizer before laying down seed.—
Amanda Tust,
Architectural Digest,
7 Aug. 2026 Liverpool John Moores University previously investigated allegations concerning his PhD and cleared him of plagiarism.—
Nancy Doyle,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2026 The lot on Hollywood Way has been cleared for new development.—
Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Aug. 2026 The trade was cleared overnight at about $107 a piece, worth some three-quarters of a billion dollars, shares that would never really touch the open market.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
7 Aug. 2026 The Food and Drug Administration has cleared Replimune’s treatment for advanced melanoma, dealing the biotech a major win after a tumultuous saga of trying to seek approval for the controversial treatment.—
Elaine Chen,
STAT,
6 Aug. 2026 Of the successful claims, two of the men were cleared by DNA evidence, while blood serum evidence was used to prove innocence in the third.—
Richard A. Webster,
ProPublica,
6 Aug. 2026 Throughout the decades, a variety of businesses came and went before the lot was cleared in 2023 to make way for the construction of the Kimpton Mirador Pacific Grove.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 Aug. 2026
The meticulous renovation of Gresham Palace, which opened as a Four Seasons in 2006, set the bar high for the numerous other restoration jobs currently underway.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 Aug. 2026
In July, Boots opened its second beauty-only store in Bristol, a big university city in southwest England.
During that time, farmers and ranchers were paid around $180 per acre-foot of water conserved.
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Swasti Singhai,
USA Today,
4 Aug. 2026
His suit claims that he has not yet been paid for his work on Bully or Vultures 2, and that West and his label, YZY, have failed to include him in the albums’ production credits on streaming services.
Technology has repeatedly absorbed low-value work and freed people to focus on higher-value work.
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Tim Bajarin,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2026
SpaceX reports its first-ever post-IPO quarterly earnings tonight, and on August 6 the company’s insiders and employees will be freed from the lockup period that prevents them from selling their stock.
The move was reminiscent of another high-profile Massachusetts murder trial that recently captured headlines, when Karen Read was acquitted of the top charge during her 2025 retrial.
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Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
3 Aug. 2026
Jurors acquitted him of first-degree murder, court records show.
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