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This template "clears" on both sides. In other words, it ensures that anything that follows it will be at horizontally lower than anything above it. The best use for this is to ensure that a table or picture aligned with the right or left of the page (such as the auto-generated thumbnails or info-box templates) remains next to the text it's related to, and that all text preceding that paragraph will be lower on the page and hence separated from it. For examples, see the article Fore-And-Aft Rigging, where this is used to make sure that the thumbnails for the different Ship Types remain next to the paragraphs discussing them.