leached

past tense of leach

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for leached
Verb
  • Nothing came of it then but the idea percolated in the lawyers’ minds.
    Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Gardner was convicted that same year and sentenced to death, but his appeals percolated in the courts for 25 years.
    Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, after being flushed from the pocket on second-and-7 from the Packers’ 39-yard line, Prescott’s heave found a toe-tapping Jalen Tolbert for a 34-yard gain.
    Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Small things, like individual eyelashes or grains of sand, often get flushed out on their own through a combination of tearing up and blinking, per Mount Sinai.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That list was filtered to 1,015 firms, and the finalists completed surveys to verify key details.
    Kate Dore, CFP®, EA,Kelli Grant, CFP®, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • And indeed, this season’s lineup was a celebration of those roots, filtered through her refined lens.
    Minty Mellon, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Keep your house landscape or camping grounds well cleaned and manicured.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 2025
  • And 12 flies were over cleaned food containers at the warewashing area, and five roaches climbed the walls around the kitchen dishwasher.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Jews were purged from the Soviet Foreign Ministry in 1939, when the Soviet Union signed a pact with Nazi Germany, and antisemitic show trials followed not long after Germany’s defeat.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Many of China’s top military officials have been purged during Xi’s third term on charges of corruption or disloyalty.
    PHILIP H. GORDON, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • According to the brand, the bourbon was distilled in 2014 and 2015, initially aged in new charred oak, and then transferred to first-fill and second-fill port barrels for a total of up to three years of secondary maturation.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 2 Oct. 2025
  • For those of us of a certain age, Heart the Lover is nostalgia distilled to black ink.
    Book Marks September 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Less pure sand can be purified by methods such as acid washing or magnetic separation.
    Aki Ishida, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This innovation purified the Ohio River water so well that the number of deaths from typhoid fever declined by 60% in 1909.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Schloss Johannisberg further refined its approach to harvesting, introducing Auslese in 1787, which meant selecting grapes even later in the season, especially those affected by botrytis.
    Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The set finds her playing guitar, bass, violin and banjo, while singing songs that feel both raw with emotion yet refined in delivery.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Leached.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leached. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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