as in explaining
to make plain or understandable
a simple explanation cleared the matter up
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clearing (up)
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Looking more broadly at the effect of unions on nonunion pay, the effect goes up, with the decline in union membership explaining a third of the total increase in wage inequality for men.—
Laura Clawson,
JSTOR Daily,
1 Sep. 2025 -
McDaniel seemingly echoed his players’ sentiments, explaining that the focus should be on who made it over those that did not.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
1 Sep. 2025
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Communicators must lead with honesty—owning mistakes, clarifying intent and aligning words with action.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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That means clarifying that Will does intend to keep working at Johnny 66, no matter how much Jenna is pushing him away.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
27 Aug. 2025
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Prosecutors showed extensive communications between mother and son illustrating their close relationship and how Donna kept track of things for Charles, who in turn solved all kinds of problems for her.—
Lauren del Valle,
CNN Money,
30 Aug. 2025
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The performers will be seen sharing some of their most personal songs and the stories behind them in front of a small audience and large, nearly wraparound screens illustrating those tales.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
28 Aug. 2025
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Soon, Geoffrey Hinton and his graduate students began demonstrating that neural networks, trained on large datasets and run on GPUs, could do things—like classify images into a thousand different categories—that would have been impossible in the late 1980s.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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Fahey Rush was often responsible for demonstrating how the company’s TV audiences — in the linear era, some of the industry’s youngest — behaved and consumed media and advertising.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025
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Kill those fears by spelling out exactly what's in and what's out.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Erin McGlothlin, the vice dean of undergraduate affairs in WashU’s College of Arts & Sciences, told me this stems from the belief that grading rubrics should be crystal clear in spelling out how class discussion is evaluated.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
17 Aug. 2025
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Simpler disclosures would replace a pile of documents (with lots of signatures and things to keep track of) with much less paper or pixels, thus simplifying and reducing the cost of transactions.—
Joshua Stein,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
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The electrical service is generator ready, simplifying the task of adding this feature if the next owner wishes to install a backup power source.—
James Alexander,
Hartford Courant,
22 Dec. 2024
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“Clearing (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clearing%20%28up%29. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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