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Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 2 votes

  1. cleaning, cleansing, cleanupnoun

    the act of making something clean

    "he gave his shoes a good cleaning"

    Synonyms:
    cleanup position, cleanup spot, killing, cleansing, cleanup

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  1. Mark Ghilarducci:

    It's a technology that is designed to get on the ground, and actually bring in a used N95 mask and do a sterilization and cleaning process that makes them basically new again, and this is new technology that has been certified by the FDA, and CDC, and it will be here in California, here within the next week. As capability, we'll have the ability to clean up to 80,000 masks per day.

  2. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.:

    Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

  3. Chen Bo:

    Hebei is enjoying favourable financing support due to its proximity to the capital and the urgency of cleaning up air pollution.

  4. Sergey Shapkhaev:

    Microorganisms also play a vital role in 'cleaning up' the lake’s water after the inflow of rivers, a reduction in their numbers might affect the water quality.

  5. Cory Booker:

    I am being very candid with people that this is not a negotiation where we should expect the outcome will be cleaning the table on common sense, bipartisan gun safety, right now, we are at a point where our nation will never be redeemed from this violence until our love of our children is greater than our love of guns and power and money.


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