leached

Definition of leachednext
past tense of leach
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Verb
  • There Are Many Secrets to Longevity The theme of longevity percolated at the summit — in terms of products and services, but also how to live one’s best life.
    Footwear News, Footwear News, 13 May 2026
  • Irma’s rains slowly percolated out of the Everglades into the bay over months.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • For makeup, artist Raoul Alejandre drew black liner in Moore’s waterline, flushed her cheeks and dressed her lips in a pale pink hue.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 22 May 2026
  • Creamy and well-pigmented, this is designed to tint the lips with barely-there color, applied without precision, and flushed out with the smudger tool on the opposite end of the crayon.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 22 May 2026
Verb
  • The dripping water, filtered through the porous lava rock, was also used as drinking water.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 20 May 2026
  • Efficiency, productivity and automation are all filtered into the same mental folder as every other AI vendor.
    Adriana Munoz Vergara, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Verb
  • Dishes that are stacked too closely together, are nested (think bowls and spoons), or blocked by larger items may not be fully cleaned and rinsed.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 19 May 2026
  • The script, credited to new collaborator Simon Lyashenko and Zvyagintsev and adapted freely from Chabrol’s 1969 thriller, wastes nothing, not even a throwaway comment at a restaurant dinner that Gleb and Galina attend about the last time Gleb cleaned his own house.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
Verb
  • This is also thanks to the fact that crawfish are often purged before cooking.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 8 May 2026
  • When accounting for positions that have been purged more than once, 52% of the PLA’s top leadership positions have been affected, the report found.
    Steven Jiang, CNN Money, 7 May 2026
Verb
  • But the impression throughout is of a complex work of fiction distilled down to broad-strokes plot machinations, to the exclusion of meaningful character insight.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • Start with a Negroni made with local Mattei Cap Corse Rouge and the Domaine’s own gin distilled with aromatic herbs, and the tagliere di salumi, an assortment of Italian charcuterie.
    Rebekah Peppler, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
Verb
  • Once purified, the atmospheric sample enters an enrichment stage that significantly enhances the detectability of trace gases.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Inside these trains, natural gas is purified and cooled to about –260 degrees Fahrenheit (–162 degrees Celsius), below the boiling point of methane.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Tucked between East Hampton and Sag Harbor at the end of a long white-pebble driveway, the pad is refined and relaxed, with a strong point of view tempered by an understated sensibility.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 22 May 2026
  • Technical parkas, utility jackets, cargo details and functional outerwear are refined through lightweight fabrics, creating looks that feel practical yet polished.
    Alex Badia, Footwear News, 22 May 2026
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“Leached.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leached. Accessed 24 May. 2026.

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