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@@ -989,7 +989,7 @@ meshes do not have to rotate at the same rate of rotation. Instead, harmonic rat
 
 \section{Outlook}
 
-\newpage
+\clearpage % clearpage flushes all figures. force this here so we don't get figures floating in between references.
 % TODO when breaking this out into a template for building both the whole thesis and individual chapters, we have to
 % decide whether we want to keep the bibliography per-chapter or only once for the whole thesis. In the latter case, we
 % probably want to replace subbibintoc with bibintoc, or add a custom "bibliography" chapter and adjust the second