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as in pardons
a setting free from a charge of wrongdoing
the clearing of his good name became his obsession
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Noun
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The body is generally good at responding to drops in temperature, but the nose and upper respiratory tracts can respond more slowly, Pekosz said.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
16 Dec. 2024 -
Chevron is a major national gas producer with power generation equipment and very large tracts of land that could be used for data centers, the executive said.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
14 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The buildings are beautiful and tranquil but fundamentally incongruous (modern architecture mixed with bits of decaying monasteries, gathered from meadows in Catalonia and France).—
Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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There are forests, bluffs, meadows, lakes and caves.—
Adam Tamburin,
Axios,
27 Feb. 2025
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But more recently, with land scarce and easy-to-develop parcels mostly gone, Tri Pointe Homes did and is nearing the finish line.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Mar. 2025
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Landlords could extract these high rents because their tenants, in turn, made money by subletting little parcels of land, often as small as a quarter of an acre, to laborers who had none of their own.—
Fintan O'Toole,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Clearings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clearings. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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