leached

past tense of leach

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leached
Verb
  • SUVs and pickups make up the majority of new registrations, but the shift hasn’t fully percolated through the state’s fleet because Americans tend to hold on to their vehicles for more than a decade.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 11 June 2026
  • Lookman eventually got his move to Atletico Madrid in January and, frankly, ever since Atalanta lost the Coppa Italia semi-final and their slim chances of a top-four finish evaporated, the feeling Ederson might follow percolated anew.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 2 June 2026
Verb
  • This helps create that flushed-from-within look.
    Amanda Le, InStyle, 5 June 2026
  • However, Jim advised investors to wait a day or two to let all the sellers be flushed out and give the stock a chance to stabilize.
    Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 4 June 2026
Verb
  • The Iran war’s disruption to energy flows pushed up commodity costs, helping ease deflationary pressures that have plagued China for years — but the gains barely filtered through to consumer prices amid weak demand.
    Anniek Bao,Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 16 June 2026
  • The staff memo said water would be reclaimed, filtered and reused.
    Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • Remote Controls, Light Switches, and Electronics Television remotes, gaming controllers, keyboards, and other electronics are touched constantly but may rarely get cleaned.
    Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 16 June 2026
  • After removing the tick, the bite area should be cleaned with soap and water, rubbing alcohol, or another antiseptic.
    Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • At various points during his interview with Sobchak, Dugin called the sport of surfing evil and said that its practitioners should be purged.
    Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
  • Burgum purged the department of roughly 13,000 staffers last year and announced efforts to reduce its workforce by even more in April.
    Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
Verb
  • This 26-year-old whiskey was distilled from a mash bill that contains a high percentage of crystal malt, also known as caramel malt, which is commonly used to make beer.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 18 June 2026
  • Reynolds distilled the script down to feature length, keeping the iconic tropes of the genre like the prom, the school play, finals, and graduation all intact.
    Matthew Huff, IndieWire, 17 June 2026
Verb
  • She was hooked up to a hemodialysis machine where her blood flowed out of her body to be purified and was then transferred back into her body where it was reabsorbed.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
  • There it is filtered and purified before being fed into the Reflecting Pool.
    New York Times, New York Times, 31 May 2026
Verb
  • The Tribune analyzed immigration court data obtained and refined by the research group Deportation Data Project.
    Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • Could the denominator be further refined in order to get even closer to our irrational target?
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 19 June 2026
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“Leached.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leached. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.

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