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as in cleans house
to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff
you're expected to clean up after you use the workroom
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as in censors
to remove objectionable parts from
cleaned up the rock star's interview before publishing it in the newspaper
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as in erases
to destroy all traces of
hurriedly cleaned up the mess that they had created in the kitchen
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Reducing Zarutska’s cruel and untimely death to racist memes also erases the role that mental health — something that Republicans are happy to bring up whenever a white mass shooter guns down Americans in cold blood — likely played in the ghastly crime.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025 -
Something that erases any evidence of itself?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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Polysulfides dissolve and migrate, which degrades battery performance and shortens its lifespan.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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That opens capacity, shortens timelines and changes how teams spend their time.—
Robbie Morrison,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Bonacini wants gold — a sterilizing cure that eradicates every trace of the virus and cannot return.—
Jia H. Jung,
Mercury News,
1 Sep. 2025
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Instead, this measure abolishes them.—
Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
31 Aug. 2025
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The Iranian parliament has just approved a law that abolishes prison sentences for those who had to leave Iran illegally.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
11 Aug. 2025
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Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and a former Google executive, has warned in the past that there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI wipes out humans.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
13 Aug. 2025
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That timeline could shrink if a massive fraud wipes out public confidence in the Internet.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Jake and Vince have an unbreakable bond that destroys everyone and everything, but as Law points out, their issues are rooted in their early family life.—
Dana Feldman,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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This final betrayal will be his undoing, as the enraged creature, doomed to live without connection, care, or love, finally snaps and destroys everything Victor holds dear.—
Thomas Page McBee,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Cleans (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleans%20%28up%29. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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