plural Leonids or Leonides
lē-ˈä-nə-ˌdēz 
: any of the meteors in a meteor shower occurring every year about November 14
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Blahut, Tomo Koizumi, Jennifer Semler, Oren Moverman and Leonid Lebedev are executive producers.
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Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
The reason the earth is rotating faster on these three days in 2025 is unexplainable, leading authority on Earth rotation Leonid Zotov told Time and Date.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Aug. 2025
Sakharov made his name working as a physicist on the development of the U.S.S.R.’s hydrogen bomb, at the height of the Cold War, but shot to global prominence after Leonid Brezhnev’s regime punished him for speaking publicly about the dangers of those weapons, and also about Soviet repression.
—Julia Angwin, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2025
The property has hosted significant political figures such as Yasser Arafat, Leonid Brezhnev, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Dalai Lama.
—Paula Conway, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Historian Leonid Marushchak, co-founder of NGO Museum Open for Renovation, has evacuated almost 2 million artifacts — paintings, sculptures and so on — as Russian forces continue to target and desolate museums around the country.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025
Analyst Leonid Timashev initiated coverage of the biopharmaceutical stock at an outperform rating.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2025
In 1975, the Russian mathematician Leonid Kantorovich shared the Nobel in economic science for refining a rigorous mathematical theory for the optimum allocation of resources.
—Siobhan Roberts, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
One soldier, Leonid, huddled in the bone-chilling cold.
—Erin Banco, Anastasiia Malenko, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
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Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
The reason the earth is rotating faster on these three days in 2025 is unexplainable, leading authority on Earth rotation Leonid Zotov told Time and Date.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Aug. 2025
Sakharov made his name working as a physicist on the development of the U.S.S.R.’s hydrogen bomb, at the height of the Cold War, but shot to global prominence after Leonid Brezhnev’s regime punished him for speaking publicly about the dangers of those weapons, and also about Soviet repression.
—Julia Angwin, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2025
The property has hosted significant political figures such as Yasser Arafat, Leonid Brezhnev, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Dalai Lama.
—Paula Conway, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Historian Leonid Marushchak, co-founder of NGO Museum Open for Renovation, has evacuated almost 2 million artifacts — paintings, sculptures and so on — as Russian forces continue to target and desolate museums around the country.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025
Analyst Leonid Timashev initiated coverage of the biopharmaceutical stock at an outperform rating.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2025
In 1975, the Russian mathematician Leonid Kantorovich shared the Nobel in economic science for refining a rigorous mathematical theory for the optimum allocation of resources.
—Siobhan Roberts, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
One soldier, Leonid, huddled in the bone-chilling cold.
—Erin Banco, Anastasiia Malenko, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Leonid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Leonid. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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