Example Sentences

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"Farmers are clearing forests to grow more crops, but those forests help generate the rainfall that the crops depend on. If that moisture source disappears, local food security will be at greater risk."

From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2025

Now 129 crews are clearing properties in the San Gabriel Valley community.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2025

Troops are in control of, and are clearing, an area across the width of north Gaza.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

"I would say that we — we probably, on average, around 100 cases a month we are clearing."

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2024

Duke and Nala are clearing some sort of invisible hurdle like champion high jumpers.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein