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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  • Efforts to ban members of Congress from owning or trading individual stock have percolated for years, but have repeatedly fallen short.
    — Luke Fountain,Justin Papp, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • Other records from the district and the state describe how most of the water percolated into the ground, evaporated into hot, dry air, or drained off fields into scrubland and desert.
    — Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026
Definition of percolated
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  • Volume surged near the bottom, where price had flushed out and begun to turn higher.
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 23 July 2026
  • Peterson recovered and gathered with two hands, then went back to his right hand and flushed a forceful one-handed dunk over Baba Miller to give Utah an early 6-2 lead.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026
Definition of flushed
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  • Maintain clean equipment and use filtered or bottled water; regularly clean the portafilter, steam wand, and machine.
    — Better Homes & Gardens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2026
  • For starters, neither file is filtered beyond building classification code.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 30 July 2026
Definition of filtered
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  • At present, most satellite data is sent back to Earth before it is cleaned, sorted and analyzed.
    — Martin Halliwell, Space.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Dryer Lint Screen The lint trap or screen in your dryer should be cleaned on a regular basis.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of cleaned
Verb
  • However, the vast majority of these folks did not actually vote, and many asked for their erroneous registrations to be purged, contrary to the Republican fantasy that millions of noncitizens are all gunning to illegally vote.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 26 July 2026
  • Partially funded by the federal government, the institution is governed by a board of regents, which does not have presidential appointees and can’t be purged in the way that the board of the Kennedy Center was.
    — Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 25 July 2026
Definition of purged
Verb
  • The whiskey was originally distilled between January and June 2015, then aged for 11 years in #3 char American oak barrels.
    — David Thomas Tao, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • After all, what is the nationality of an American model distilled from a Chinese model that was distilled from an American model?
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of distilled
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  • This gas will then be purified and concentrated, ready for export to local gas networks as what is termed renewable natural gas (RNG).
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
  • And here, the researchers simply purified the translation machinery and supplied it to the SpudCells.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
Definition of purified
Verb
  • Like a Genesis, Oseyo blends heritage with innovation, delivering an experience that feels refined without sacrificing warmth or authenticity.
    — Claudia Alarcón, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • Granny shoes represent a new balance between the everyday and the refined.
    — Alex Sales, Glamour, 24 July 2026
Definition of refined
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