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Recent Examples of clearing
Noun
Site preparation is underway, with land clearing and leveling completed as the company prepares for commercial equipment deliveries expected later this year.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
6 July 2026 Cavalli, the Nationals’ budding star right-hander, is appealing the seven-game suspension that he and Boston’s Willson Contreras both received Thursday for their individual roles in the benches-clearing run-in at Fenway Park on Tuesday evening.—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
4 July 2026
Verb
McNeil followed with a bases-clearing two-bagger into the gap in left-center to pull the Athletics within 7-5.—Miami Herald,
4 July 2026 Teams are clearing right-of-way storm damage and are coordinating with ComEd as power is restored so that more work areas are deemed safe for clean-up, Aurora officials said.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
4 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for clearing
The pardon would clear the felony conviction from her record.
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Lawrence Mower,
Miami Herald,
7 July 2026
His use of the presidency’s sweeping ability to unilaterally grant pardons and commute sentences is among the ways the Republican’s return to office has featured an expansive use of executive power.
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Michelle L. Price,
Los Angeles Times,
4 July 2026
The team combined two fast-growing areas of quantum research by using a magnetic topological material to study non-Hermitian physics, an emerging field that examines systems with unconventional behavior.
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Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 July 2026
Devers furthered the Giants’ cause with a ground-rule double that lodged itself under the padding along the right-field line, scoring Schmitt.
Tuesday’s series-opening win over the White Sox, coupled with an Orioles loss, moved Boston out of the American League East cellar and up to fourth place.
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Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
9 July 2026
Today both an official opening press conference and the opening ceremony signaled the arrival of the Esports World Cup in Paris, even if the in-game action had started last week.
The first step this shampoo takes is ridding your scalp of (in my case, probably years) dead cells and product buildup.
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Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
2 July 2026
After the Battle of the Alamo, the Mexican army ransacked the site and salvaged all the leftover artillery for future military use, ridding the battleground of most of its weaponry.
Rather than paying the Cuban government agency that runs medical missions, Calabria signed individual contracts with the doctors and makes deposits in their Italian bank accounts.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
9 July 2026
The Justice Department unveiled this case against it, essentially arguing that SPLC had been defrauding its donors by paying informants within far-right groups who were infiltrating those groups.
Nearby, groups descended on a shopping center on 32nd Street, emptying trash cans and tossing merchandise from the Pavilions grocery store into the parking lot.
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Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
6 July 2026
Placing a catch plate under the feeder and emptying it regularly solves that problem.
But Thorpe’s prose ushers us through the eponymous hero’s crises with humor and panache, filtering the bright but naive protagonist-Margo’s evolution through the voice of a narrator-Margo who has developed some perspective.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
8 July 2026
Anthropic, citing both legal obligation and the technical impossibility of filtering users by nationality in real time, shut both models down globally despite their value.
The Tigers passed on adding Go, who has spent time in the minors with the Miami Marlins, San Diego Padres and Tigers since 2024, freeing him up to join the Twins.
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Dan Hayes,
New York Times,
6 July 2026
The flywheel does not need to be replaced every 3-5 years and can be installed outdoors, freeing up more space and cash for compute.
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Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
3 July 2026
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