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Noun
In very cold temperatures, elk may linger longer in clearings.—
Jim Zumbo,
Outdoor Life,
10 Sep. 2026 That’s the first of several remaining hard pivots that reveal Aepoh — and later, her Karen kinswoman Aeva (Waywiree Ittianunkul) — as uprooted victims of the authorities’ clearings.—
Beatrice Loayza,
Variety,
9 Sep. 2026
Verb
The benefits go well beyond clearing breakouts According to Very Well Health, salicylic acid delivers exfoliating, keratolytic and anti-inflammatory benefits.—
Hanna Wickes,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Sep. 2026 When bulldozers were spotted clearing land in the park in August, people across the state were outraged.—ABC News,
14 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for clearing
The Justice Department, for instance, decimated its elite Public Integrity Section in early 2025 while the FBI disbanded a white-collar fraud and public corruption squad based out of its Washington field office.
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PATRICK WHITTLE,
Arkansas Online,
24 Sep. 2026
This had nothing to do with work on the field, but rather a promotion for how the team is about to honor its past.
Another sign of Purdy’s confidence and command came in Australia during the season-opening win against the Los Angeles Rams, when Purdy found receiver Demarcus Robinson for a 39-yard touchdown, San Francisco’s first of the season.
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Chris Biderman,
Sacbee.com,
21 Sep. 2026
Provis is officially opening to the public this weekend, aiming to provide dark academia vibes and competition-level coffee to the area.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
21 Sep. 2026
The city is continuing to replace lead pipes with copper ones in the older houses in the community with funds from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA), ridding the community of pipes that might harm people or contaminate water.
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Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Aug. 2026
The fatal crash has led city leaders and animal rights activists to take a new look at ridding New York of carriage horses.
Lee’s fiction, like 19th-century novels, seeks to engender sympathy by paying close attention to the lives of many varied characters.
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Sanjena Sathian,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2026
That raised their borrowing costs — the US will spend more money this year paying interest on the national debt than on its military — which leaves less to cushion the economic fallout.
Salesforce's latest survey this year shows that a growing number of consumers are delegating product search and filtering to AI agents, with usage of agentic search surging 200% year-on-year.
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CNBC,
23 Sep. 2026
Researchers at a lab at the University of Illinois Chicago have been testing the water for the event for safety, including filtering concentrated bacteria, isolating the DNA, then amplifying it to measure how much is in the water.
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