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Recent Examples of clearing
Noun
Strengthened by Tropical Storm Marie, a ridge of high pressure through the upper atmosphere is forming across the western United States, increasing heat and clearing skies for much of this side of the nation through the week ahead.—
Sean MacAday,
Sacbee.com,
8 Sep. 2026 Without instant clearing, a payment request is just a fancier invoice.—
Ivaylo Bozoukov,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2026
Verb
After clearing waivers, Milton decided to return to the team’s practice squad.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Sep. 2026 Crews have been clearing access for heavy machinery to be used in the search at the border crossing complex, which was washed away by the floods.—
Shristi Kafle,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for clearing
Colonizers call it voluntary emigration, but there is nothing voluntary about fleeing after your home has been bombed, your fields poisoned, your water cut off and your child buried.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2026
Before the Bills made this decision, NFL field director Nick Pappas wanted to meet with the Highmark Stadium grounds crew to see the field for himself.
YouTube is having a breakthrough moment, in terms of legacy media opening its mind to what creators are capable of.
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Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
14 Sep. 2026
That's the central question of an eye-opening new book, The Everywhere Millionaire, by two economists who have spent more than a decade researching the wealthiest Americans.
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.
New homebuyers are paying 7% on their mortgages, and other loans are even more expensive.
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Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
15 Sep. 2026
In a lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Baker-Mazara alleged that Musselman kicked him off the team in an effort to avoid paying him the remainder of his name, image and likeness contract with the school.
The 26-year-old took a few steps towards the slowly emptying South Stand, and, within seconds, was joined by his daughter Maria Alice, who ran out to him.
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Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2026
The sky is still larger than those occupying it, and Palestine remains larger than the violence devoted to emptying it of Palestinians.
United regularly exploited Everton’s 4-1-4-1 system, sending runners down the side of Garner as the solitary No 6 and freeing Rashford in his mismatch up against Rohl.
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Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2026
Her existence is solitary by design, freeing her up to disappear into her studies at all hours of the night, the doors of every institution seemingly always ready to welcome her into its stacks and viewing stations and leather reading chairs.
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