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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
houseclean .
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Examples
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In The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut imagines that in a far-distant future, the past has to be housecleaned:
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The transfer process also required them to book stiff precautionary write-offs, meaning their balance sheets have been thoroughly housecleaned.
Iceland's Banks Come in From the Cold Ásgeir Jónsson 2011
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The transfer process also required them to book stiff precautionary write-offs, meaning their balance sheets have been thoroughly housecleaned.
Iceland Comes In From the Cold Ásgeir Jónsson 2011
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The transfer process also required them to book stiff precautionary write-offs, meaning their balance sheets have been thoroughly housecleaned.
Iceland's Banks Come in From the Cold Ásgeir Jónsson 2011
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The transfer process also required them to book stiff precautionary write-offs, meaning their balance sheets have been thoroughly housecleaned.
Iceland Comes In From the Cold Ásgeir Jónsson 2011
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In The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut imagines that in a far-distant future, the past has to be housecleaned:
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You can't inhabit a new house until it is thoroughly housecleaned!
Desperate Times Demand Revolutionary, Visionary Response 2008
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This from Eldrick Tiger Woods, winner of four straight major championships and a concession from Jack Nicklaus that the Bear couldn't have housecleaned the kid's putting lines back when he was devouring Arnie and the rest?
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And then in the spring when we housecleaned, which I think of so much as I get older, we had to take a feather and put it in kerosene and go around every little tiny hole about the bed and the bedsprings.
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Rosie had just housecleaned her desk for the second time that day.
'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918
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