leached

verb

past tense of leach
1
as in percolated

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2
as in flushed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leached
  1. percolated
  2. flushed
  3. filtered
  4. cleaned
  5. purged
  6. distilled
  7. purified
  8. refined
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  • As detailed in work from Liu’s team published earlier this year, some of the minerals in the meteorite have been aqueously altered—a sign that liquid water once percolated through Mars’s ancient mantle and crust.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Talk about more layoffs has percolated internally since a September 18 memo by Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer Horacio Gutierrez.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of percolated
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  • The third call is for an amethyst necklace that got flushed down a toilet.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The helter-skelter approach to data center construction has resulted in significant amounts of money getting flushed down the toilet in unworkable projects – collateral damage from massive competition to be first and biggest.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of flushed
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  • From there, promising athletes were filtered into regional training centers, which further funnelled the very best to INSEP.
    — Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026
  • If a woman’s symptoms are filtered through assumptions about her weight or mental health, and the true story of her pain is omitted, AI may learn and reproduce how the woman is framed in the record.
    — Jennifer Silva, STAT, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of filtered
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  • The apartments Svetlana cleaned belonged to people in their thirties who didn’t seem to leave the house much—there was trash from Amazon and Uber Eats everywhere.
    — Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Some blankets can only be spot-cleaned, while others have removable, washable covers that can be laundered with everything else.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of cleaned
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  • Then, Jews were put under curfews, Jewish academic were purged from universities and Jewish students stopped being admitting to schools.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Xi had earlier purged two of China’s top generals, leaving Zhang as the commission’s only member besides Xi himself.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of purged
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  • The core lineup includes a cheaper version of that whiskey without the cask finish, as well as the cask-strength Reserve and an American single malt—all of which are distilled and produced at Cedar Ridge Distillery in Iowa.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Where climate action has largely been distilled into decarbonization, nature is sprawling and complex — even more so than fashion supply chains.
    — Bella Webb, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of distilled
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  • But what if the water and nutrients could be purified from whey permeate and used for other purposes?
    — Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Once hydrogen is flowing from the ground, how will the gas be purified?
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of purified
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  • The Iran war has raised oil prices, pushing up prices for fuels like gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, which are refined from crude oil, economists said.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Across 128 sessions, Claude gradually developed and refined a wiki using information from those documents.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of refined
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“Leached.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leached. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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