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in the clear
Free from danger or suspicion of wrongdoing, as in The evidence showed that the suspect was actually in the clear . [1920s]
Having enough money to make a profit, as in When they added up the box-office returns, they found they were several thousand dollars in the clear . [ Slang ; 1920s]
Example Sentences
Though she did not go into too much detail about her treatment, Huston said her cancer battle discouraged her from taking life too seriously and that she is now “in the clear.”
Even if courts were to find that Musk is an inferior officer, the Constitution still does not leave him in the clear.
Those demands must also frame the struggle in the clear language that Donald Trump’s attempts to reconstitute the racial caste system are wrong.
County residents are fully in the clear.
Meanwhile, Trump insisted he was in the clear, telling the court: “I’m totally innocent. I did nothing wrong.”
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