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Recent Examples of clarify In its statement, Kaiser clarified that non-surgical gender-affirming treatments for youth, such as hormone therapy, and surgery treatments for those 19 and older will remain available. Molly Gibbs, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2025 Police are trying to clarify the relationship between the victim and the woman being questioned, who lives in a fourth-floor apartment, according to neighbors. Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 23 July 2025 Bee’s co-founder, Maria de Lourdes Zollo, announced the deal in a LinkedIn post, before Amazon confirmed the news, clarifying that the deal has not yet closed. PC Magazine, 23 July 2025 After initial reports that McAllister entered the room on his own and was not authorized to be there, Bodden clarified that he was in fact invited in. Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for clarify
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Verb
  • Excess protein is filtered out through the kidneys.
    Christina Manian, Health, 14 July 2025
  • Much of it filters down from Black communities; much of it is used to trick content moderation filters; and much of it relies on an underlying comedy.
    Adam Aleksic, People.com, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • Police officials will explain how the new police drones can be remotely deployed and piloted toward the scene of an incident from docks placed across the city.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 26 July 2025
  • Malone explained that over time, however, your brain adapts by adding more adenosine receptors, which makes caffeine less effective at the same dose.
    Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 25 July 2025
Verb
  • Brands need to do a better job in their data analysis to refine their segmentation models so very important customers are recognized and treated as such.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Raised in Phoenix, refined over three years at Dayton University, Holmes had never sustained a major health setback.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 13 July 2025
Verb
  • Though Combs denied the allegation, the incident illustrates how some individuals may attempt to exert control over their current or former partners, even through intimidation or violence, to prevent them from forming new relationships.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
  • The artist continues to interrogate the interplay between image and text in culture today –– illustrating the persistent dominance of advertising, as well as the peculiarities of newer phenomena, such as memes.
    Megan Williams, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
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  • Before 1962, the maximum legal barrel entry proof was 110, but Stitzel-Weller went much further during production to extract and preserve as much flavor as possible.
    Chris Perugini, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • By crushing bones and boiling them to extract grease, Neanderthals tapped into a rich energy source, using techniques once thought to belong only to much later human groups.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 12 July 2025
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  • This was demonstrated in a 2024 study evaluating the effectiveness of a turmeric-Boswellia formulation.10 Boswellia, also known as Indian frankincense, is an herbal extract that has been found to reduce inflammation.11 In this study, pain relief was quick.
    Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 24 July 2025
  • Verses demonstrated EcoNet in March at the 2025 AI UK exhibition at the Turing Institute in London.
    Gabriel René, IEEE Spectrum, 24 July 2025
Verb
  • He was fined four more times in 2012 and 2013, then suspended again in 2014 for stepping on Aaron Rodgers’ calf, which was later reversed into another fine.
    Tobias Bass, New York Times, 12 July 2025
  • Several days later, while her husband was still in the hospital, the woman was fined $1,000 for violating the restriction, the state’s parks agency said.
    Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • The snow had stopped by 4:05 p.m., over an hour after the incident, and the weather began to clear, with cloudless skies at around 5:25 p.m., the NTSB's findings stated.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 24 July 2025
  • Certain advancements in technology mean aspects of this are theoretically possible, even though the bar is so high to clear in practice.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 24 July 2025

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“Clarify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clarify. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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