Definitions
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- noun One who
tidies . - adjective
comparative form oftidy : moretidy
Etymologies
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Examples
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But its sound is definitely "tidier" and a bit less lush and three-dimensional than the sound of the two analog tuners, the Marantz especially.
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There were a few years after the departure of children when life was tidier.
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I wish I could think of a tidier pair of symbols, but I haven't come up with anything better.
Gretchen Rubin: Self-Acceptance: Are You an 'Alchemist' or a 'Leopard'? Gretchen Rubin 2012
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Of course, such purely linguistic foci also make for more and ‘tidier’ research papers, the number of which is the determining factor in that context in terms of who earns the most academic prestige and hence positions of influence (not to mention money!).
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I wish I could think of a tidier pair of symbols, but I haven't come up with anything better.
Gretchen Rubin: Self-Acceptance: Are You an 'Alchemist' or a 'Leopard'? Gretchen Rubin 2012
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Sustainism offers that if properly nurtured through a cultural revolution, its nuggets of wisdom will grow to become the mighty beanstalk of ecological achievement and will bear a cornucopia of contributions toward a sustainable way of life and work as a tidier world is created in their literal image.
Michael DeJong: The Human Stain on "Sustainism" Michael DeJong 2011
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They're not as comforting as the tidier, more unequivocal books in which good triumphs and evil is punished, but they're the ones that stay in my mind.
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I wish I could think of a tidier pair of symbols, but I haven't come up with anything better.
Gretchen Rubin: Self-Acceptance: Are You an 'Alchemist' or a 'Leopard'? Gretchen Rubin 2012
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I suppose in a way all fiction revises life, whether to make it happier or sadder or funnier or stranger or tidier or messier -- whatever the writer wants or needs.
A conversation with Ann Packer, author of The Dive from Clausen's Pier 2010
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I wish I could think of a tidier pair of symbols, but I haven't come up with anything better.
Gretchen Rubin: Self-Acceptance: Are You an 'Alchemist' or a 'Leopard'? Gretchen Rubin 2012
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