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- noun A
sign orsignal indicating that ahindrance ordanger is clear.
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Examples
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To be sure, investors aren't ready to call the all-clear on the myriad challenges still facing the global economy, from soaring oil prices, political instability across the energy-exporting Middle East, and nuclear risks after this month's Japanese earthquake.
Dow Reclaims 12000 With 178-Point Jump Jonathan Cheng 2011
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They seemed almost cartoonish with their silly, different-colored “terror alerts” that had done little except raise fears only to call the all-clear with no explanations…sort of like the boy who cried wolf.
Malice Robert K. Tanenbaum 2007
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He’d just called an all-clear on the third bomb in less than two minutes, but the first one had cost nine.
SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010
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He’d just called an all-clear on the third bomb in less than two minutes, but the first one had cost nine.
SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010
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He’d just called an all-clear on the third bomb in less than two minutes, but the first one had cost nine.
SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010
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He’d just called an all-clear on the third bomb in less than two minutes, but the first one had cost nine.
SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010
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"What's driving these moves is a second-guessing of the all-clear signal that was sounded in the final week of June," said Matthew Alexy head of New York foreign exchange for TD Securities.
Dow Down on Europe Debt Worries Tom Lauricella 2011
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A rival offer from National Australia Bank Ltd. was blocked by Australia's competition regulator, which gave the all-clear to the AMP bid.
AXA Asia Bid Approved Rebecca Thurlow 2011
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Law enforcement officials and more than a dozen fire trucks had converged on the center, where concerned residents with leashed dogs in tow were waiting for the all-clear to go home.
Gas Line Pressure Causes Explosion And A Dozen Fires In Ohio Town AP 2011
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I am so saddened to hear that she has been afflicted with Breast Cancer, but thrilled to hear that she has been given the all-clear!
AND UPDATE ON DAME MAGGIE SMITH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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