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Recent Examples of evacuateResidents who evacuated were allowed to return Sunday evening, Horry County Fire Rescue said in a statement.—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2025 Goodwyn said that the exercise in April would be on a larger scale, where the organization as a whole will mobilize airplanes and send them on simulated missions to deliver goods, evacuate people and assess damage.—Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025 Residents had been ordered to evacuate several neighborhoods near that wildfire, but by late Sunday afternoon, the evacuation order was lifted, Horry County Fire Rescue said.—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2025 On the morning of Nov. 8, a fire chief made the call via radio to evacuate the eastern side of Paradise at 7:46 a.m.—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for evacuate
Submerge containers for 10 minutes, then remove them and empty the tub.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
25 Feb. 2025
Litherland said the tomb, which was built under a waterfall, had been deliberately emptied after being flooded within a few years of the king’s burial.
The losing team would need to offer a valid reason to vacate the arbitration decision.
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Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
2 Mar. 2025
The legal group is a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Trump administration that is currently in the hands of the Supreme Court, which is weighing whether to permanently vacate the lower court’s order to allow foreign aid to flow once again.
Gathering at Scripps Research’s third annual Pandemic Preparedness Symposium last week, researchers working in virology and chemistry did not bother to debate whether or not H5N1 avian influenza will clear this rapidly shrinking hurdle.
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Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Mar. 2025
Pine forests regularly rely on wildfire for the release of seeds from pinecones and to clear vegetation for new growth.
Scented beads aren't meant to be used instead of laundry detergent, as their job isn't necessarily to clean, but to impart that unmistakable fresh laundry scent.
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Maria Sabella,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Mar. 2025
Just be careful with shampoos that claim to clean every kind of surface.
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