leap at

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verb (1)

leaped at or leapt at; leaping at; leaps at

: to eagerly take (a chance, opportunity, etc.)

She leaped at the offer of a better job.

leap out at

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verb (2)

leaped out at or leapt out at; leaping at; leaps out at

1

: to suddenly come at (someone) from a hiding place

The man leaped out at her from behind a shrub.

2

: to immediately get the attention of (someone)

The picture on the magazine's cover leaps out at you.

Examples of leap at in a Sentence

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Verb

Diomande made a spectacular leap at RB Leipzig in 2025-26 and comes into this tournament being tracked closely by Europe’s elite clubs. —Liam Twomey, New York Times, 11 June 2026

Johnson’s next at-bat sprang nightmares of Friday’s ninth-inning winner as his towering fly ball kept carrying in right field, but this time Phoenix Call leaped at the wall to snag it. —Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 1 June 2026

Verb

Honey is one of the first notes that leaps out at you on the nose, along with vanilla and apricot. —Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2026

But the people who do these tasks are already more likely to be women than men, and the book’s hot-pink cover, which has a line drawing of a mother and child, isn’t exactly designed to leap out at the male reader. —Anna Louie Sussman, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2025

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