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  • Whether you don't want companies to know which health problems you've been researching, or are just annoyed of being reminded about, say, a toaster oven you bought in 2006, a little Internet sweep-up is a good idea.

    Not Me Dot Com Luke O'Neil 2011

  • Whether you don't want companies to know which health problems you've been researching, or are just annoyed of being reminded about, say, a toaster oven you bought in 2006, a little Internet sweep-up is a good idea.

    Not Me Dot Com Luke O'Neil 2011

  • The rewards are immense when the back end of the creative process is absorbed as habit in your endeavors—the closure, the sweep-up, the reordering of your tools.

    Unclutter Your Life in One Week Erin Rooney Doland 2009

  • Later that day, there was a neighborhood sweep-up event organized by Obama Works, a grassroots public service organization inspired by Obama's community activism background.

    Mike Newall: I Was An Obama Volunteer 2008

  • The attack comes amid a wave of sweep-up operations in the region by

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • If I can recall, there was one Iraqi in the sweep-up of terrorists.

    Firedoglake » Getting Awfully Crowded Here on the Grassy Knoll 2006

  • She'd been guzzling margaritas like they were lime-flavored soda pop and giving encouragement to every man in the place, including him, the lowly sweep-up boy.

    Where There's Smoke Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1994

  • When the last was gone, she turned back into the house, where Mrs. Tolhurst stood ready with her broom to begin an immediate sweep-up after the waiters, whom she looked upon as the chief source of the disorder.

    Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

  • She found a remedy for every fresh inconvenience that was discovered, explaining the obscurity by saying the weather was overcast, and concluded by affirming that a sweep-up would suffice to set everything right.

    Theresa Raquin ��mile Zola 1871

  • And that's one of the differences between this little Scooba and its larger-capacity siblings: the Scooba 350 and Scooba 380 will prep the areas you want cleaned by doing the sweep-up for you.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

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