as in legally
according to the rules or the law
it was a cleanly fought match, so you have no grounds for complaint
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as in sanitary
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Recent Examples of cleanly
Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2024
Lionsgate Studios is spinning off from the premium cable network Starz, to cleanly separate the two businesses and pave the way for potential M&A deals.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 Oct. 2024
Javier Cabral, Bon Appétit, 21 July 2023
De La Hoya rematch, advancing them with rich archival footage presented in cleanly chronological fashion.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
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With a constantly roaming camera, director James Wan uses long takes to cleanly establish each space onscreen; meanwhile, constant zooms and slight compositional shifts perpetually unsettle the audience.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2024
Lionsgate Studios is spinning off from the premium cable network Starz, to cleanly separate the two businesses and pave the way for potential M&A deals.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 Oct. 2024
Adjective
Other options like the fall apart-tender pork belly taco, topped with sour-sweet tamarind salsa, cleanly acidic gooseberry salsa, and bright serranos round out the thoughtful menu at Guerilla Tacos.
—Javier Cabral, Bon Appétit, 21 July 2023
De La Hoya rematch, advancing them with rich archival footage presented in cleanly chronological fashion.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
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An information page outlining rules, locations where trees may be cut legally and tips for taking trees can be found on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests website.John Meyer, The Denver Post, 9 Nov. 2024
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While Trump, who is the primary shareholder of Trump Media with a 57.6% stake in the company, can legally hold onto his shares while in office, there is a conflict of interest.Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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Displaced from his home in Khartoum by the war, Samer has witnessed female peers struggling to obtain sanitary pads.UNICEF USA, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data on the most and least sanitary cruise ships of 2024.Jenna Anderson, Health, 15 Oct. 2024
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One current method used for mosquito control is called the sterile insect technique, which works by releasing many sterile males to mate with females, who tend to mate with only one partner.Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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These tests require you to pee into a sterile cup so your healthcare provider can check for protein and waste products in your urine.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 19 Oct. 2024
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That meant that grooming, as a hygienic behavior, gradually started to lose its relevance and our bouts of grooming started getting shorter.ByPhie Jacobs, science.org, 28 Oct. 2024
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In the post-pandemic scenario, using QR codes for payment has become a norm due to quick transactions, ease of use and a hygienic approach to payment.Nitin Gupta, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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And there definitely was a party element to the occasion, with guests moving to the sounds of the DJ, performing line dances with pure joy.Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
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But scientists didn’t figure out how to isolate, extract, and ingest pure DMT on its own until 1956, which branched the drug off from ayahuasca into its own history.Oshan Jarow, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
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No scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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The White House is untainted by scandal, the incumbent party is charismatic.Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2024
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Danni thinks Keith is wholesome and the opposite of this past toxicity.Emma Soren, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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Contrary to expectations, the three boys enjoy a wholesome home life, even with their intimate connections to crime, as their mother (Emily Meade) is a bookkeeper for the mob.Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Multigenerational trips where families rent houses are popular here, too, and the biggest nightlife activity is stargazing under the unpolluted sky and looking for fiddler crabs on the beach.Trudy Haywood Saunders, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2024
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In a natural, unpolluted environment hawkmoths might fly 80 kilometers in a night and be able to home in on flowers from kilometers away.Popular Science, Popular Science, 8 Feb. 2024
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“Cleanly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleanly. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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