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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fresh start, clean slate, tabula rasanoun

    an opportunity to start over without prejudice

Wiktionary

  1. clean slatenoun

    a slate on which the courses steered by a ship (and distances run) were recorded, but have been wiped clean after being entered in the log at the end of a watch

  2. clean slatenoun

    a fresh start

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  1. clean slate

    A clean slate refers to a fresh start or new beginning where past mistakes, failures, or negative experiences are forgotten or disregarded. It's often used in contexts where someone is given another chance without considering their previous actions or behaviors. The term originates from when slates were used for writing or keeping scores, and cleaning it would erase all past records.

Wikidata

  1. Clean Slate

    Clean Slate is a 1994 American comedy film, directed by Mick Jackson. The film stars Dana Carvey as a private investigator who is the key witness in a murder case. After suffering a head injury however, he has developed a rare form of amnesia that causes him to forget anything that's happened to him the previous day. This makes it hard for him to know who to trust, or if he even knows them at all. Valeria Golino, Michael Gambon, James Earl Jones, Bryan Cranston, and Kevin Pollak co-star.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of clean slate in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of clean slate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of clean slate in a Sentence

  1. Jim Walden:

    Russia's not writing on a clean slate. Russia has had a state sponsored doping program since at least the 1960s. It is very well established, it is heavily documented. And so when any Russian athlete tests positive, the Russian state is not doing anyone any favors because there is now a presumption of guilt instead of a presumption of innocence, which for a 15-year-old skater is terrible.

  2. Kent Bayazitoglu:

    Now we start off with a clean slate and will likely see more long trades since the market expects prices to rise in the future.

  3. Rex Tillerson:

    We're not trying to start with a clean slate, you cannot erase the past.

  4. Steve Scheffler:

    It's up for grabs. It's a clean slate regardless of if you've run before, naturally those two (Huckabee and Santorum) have the name recognition and database of people who supported them in the past, but by and large voters are going to say, 'Let me take a good look at all of these candidates.'.

  5. Michael Wissot:

    In 2012 the leadership was so determined to defeat the left-wing incumbent (President Barack Obama) that we never fully developed our own narrative, the 2016 Republican super PACs have names that imply a clean slate, a new beginning.


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