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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]

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But even though I’d long steered away from these unholy buttons, I wasn’t in the clear.

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But even though Trump announced a 90-day temporary stay on the new duties on Wednesday, and the administration said late Friday that it would exclude certain electronics from “reciprocal” tariffs, Vietnam isn’t exactly in the clear.

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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.”

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Even if courts were to find that Musk is an inferior officer, the Constitution still does not leave him in the clear.

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Those demands must also frame the struggle in the clear language that Donald Trump’s attempts to reconstitute the racial caste system are wrong.

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