CLEANS (OFF) Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

cleans (off)

verb

present tense third-person singular of clean (off)

as in straightens (up)

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turns out

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Seyfried turns out to be an essential aspect of You Can See Everything’s success as a film.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2026
The much more likely outcome is that AI turns out to be, on the scale of the whole species, one of the best things that ever happened to us.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

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