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Recent Examples of cleanness
In Experiment City, scientific progress and a collective ethos have had counterintuitive social consequences: Citizens occupy uniform studio apartments, becoming increasingly insular and fastidious about the cleanness of their bodies.
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Madeleine Feeny, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
The home support, angry at referee Rob Jones throughout, could barely muster an appeal for a penalty given the cleanness of the challenge.
—Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
Copland’s music has a cleanness, a belief that all the parts must function.
—Jane Levere, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
With her brand new red locks separated in a half-up half-down style, Fox brilliantly combines the chaos of a messy bun with the cleanness of parted face-framing strands.
—Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
Our special boosters powerfully break through any type of stain or odor, giving you an all-natural cleanness that leaves your clothes looking and smelling great.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
The sparseness of the production design and cleanness of the editing permit Adkins and Long’s full-tilt gracefulness to be the scene’s primary focus.
—Vulture, 7 Mar. 2023
His style prized cleanness, and secure but never imperious beauty.
—Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Mar. 2022
The reasons include not just gas's relative abundance and cheapness, its cleanness, and its low carbon content compared with coal, but also its flexibility, as a recent Worldwatch report observes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2010
Madeleine Feeny, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
The home support, angry at referee Rob Jones throughout, could barely muster an appeal for a penalty given the cleanness of the challenge.
—Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
Copland’s music has a cleanness, a belief that all the parts must function.
—Jane Levere, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
With her brand new red locks separated in a half-up half-down style, Fox brilliantly combines the chaos of a messy bun with the cleanness of parted face-framing strands.
—Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
Our special boosters powerfully break through any type of stain or odor, giving you an all-natural cleanness that leaves your clothes looking and smelling great.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
The sparseness of the production design and cleanness of the editing permit Adkins and Long’s full-tilt gracefulness to be the scene’s primary focus.
—Vulture, 7 Mar. 2023
His style prized cleanness, and secure but never imperious beauty.
—Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Mar. 2022
The reasons include not just gas's relative abundance and cheapness, its cleanness, and its low carbon content compared with coal, but also its flexibility, as a recent Worldwatch report observes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2010
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cleanness
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Florida Florida’s ranking was fueled by thousands of cleanliness complaints in major tourist hubs.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
7 Feb. 2026
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Investment in store labor has also driven better cleanliness and inventory flow, according to the analyst.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
4 Feb. 2026
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But getting hung up on the purity of beginning from the beginning is more likely to be a stumbling block than a source of pleasure.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
11 Feb. 2026
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Before the war, Iran had been enriching uranium up to 60% purity, a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels.—
Farnoush Amiri,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Two of the main criteria they will be judged on are correctness (whether the code does what it’s supposed to) and performance, but a third more subjective measure is perhaps the most important, says Wallach.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 Jan. 2026
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Martha Nowill, Otávio Muller, Chandelly Braz and Marco Pigossi star in the movie that seems designed to flush away any form of correctness, political or otherwise.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Jan. 2026
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In a healthier political culture, his temperament and lack of decency would be disqualifying issues.—
Ray Nothstine,
Washington Post,
10 Feb. 2026
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Bad Bunny brought on Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, seamlessly, without stopping to genuflect, the mood moving from sweaty to open-hearted, then finally, with Bad Bunny dancing off the field, singing into the camera, a furious insistence on decency itself.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2026
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The absolute rightness of being together.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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For the most part, though, his attention to detail and his feeling for structure yielded readings of inherent, inarguable rightness.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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The clash of beauty and filth is well suited for Brontë’s desolate tale of romance in a tempestuous climate, where Cathy is constantly caught between Victorian propriety and her baser, wilder nature.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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Faulkner said the Apartment Association will also help arrange community gatherings with first responders at participating proprieties.—
Austin Sanders,
Austin American Statesman,
6 Feb. 2026
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This series is to encourage [and] inspire hip hop and remind us all [of] the pureness of hip hop.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Cleanness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleanness. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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