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Recent Examples of cleared
Adjective
Not all pads are alike, but a footprint on the larger side involves five to ten acres of cleared, packed ground that serves as the hub for drilling equipment, which can include wellheads, pump jacks, tanks, wastewater storage pits, trailers, and flare stacks.—
Alex Heard,
Outside,
4 Mar. 2026 What counts as a cleared sidewalk?—
Quinn Clark,
jsonline.com,
1 Dec. 2025
Verb
Thick clouds threatened all morning to halt the countdown but in the end, the skies cleared enough to allow for a safe liftoff.—Arkansas Online,
2 Oct. 2026 Castro, who is running for a second term, has denied any wrongdoing in that matter and believes she will eventually be cleared.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2026 When the smoke cleared, three of the Dalton gang lay dead; Emmett was wounded but survived.—Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Oct. 2026 Addressing the main bottleneck The decision to scale up manufacturing follows a major scientific hurdle cleared just weeks ago.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2026 The Fair Political Practices Commission cleared Steyer of wrongdoing earlier this month.—
Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
2 Oct. 2026 The same day, a Qantas Boeing 737 was cleared to cross a runway in front of a Virgin Australia 737 that had just been cleared for takeoff, the report said.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
2 Oct. 2026 The financial runway cleared by its June IPO is transformative.—
Harvey Stober,
CNBC,
2 Oct. 2026 During Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency, from 2019 to 2022, Amazon deforestation surged by about 60%, with over 17,400 square miles cleared, according to official data.—
Gabriela Sá Pessoa,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Oct. 2026
Iit was clear that Chiefs fans missed seeing Suamataia and hoped to hear why the Chiefs had made the change to the offensive line for the game between 3-0 teams.
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Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
5 Oct. 2026
Cutting loose McDaniel would be expensive, too, and there’s no clear successor waiting in the wings.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Oct. 2026
In June, the group opened a series of arena dates ahead of Turnpike Troubadours and Muscadine Bloodline.
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Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
3 Oct. 2026
Sayegh, who owns the five-screen cinema in Cranford, near to New York City, will mark the centennial with a throwback screening of Padlocked, the silent film that opened the theater’s doors on November 29, 1926, with an accompanying organ player.
If those colonoscopies were done in an independent surgery center or physician’s office, insurers would have paid almost two-thirds less.
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Bob Herman,
STAT,
5 Oct. 2026
In a rare show of unity, politicians from all ends of the fragmented political spectrum also paid tribute to the medieval ruler, listening to the national anthem and a 21-gun salute.
Just off Piccadilly and steps from Green Park, the brand’s nature-first mentality translates into living green walls, reclaimed timber, raw stone, and filtered water taps—sustainability being a point of emphasis here.
In present day, back on the planet decimated by the Manhunters, John interrogates Sinestro (Ulrich Thomsen) and learns that Noah freed the villain from prison.
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Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
5 Oct. 2026
Once imprisoned on corruption charges, Lula was freed by the nation's Supreme Court and then defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a heated 2022 election by a razor-thin margin.
The judge deferred ruling on Rashbaum’s constitutional challenge until after trial, and the issue became moot when the jury acquitted Renaud on all counts.
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Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
6 Oct. 2026
Images of an angry and sobbing Brown became the media’s hallmark of grief during the criminal trial, particularly when Simpson was acquitted in 1995.
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