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Recent Examples of leaf
Beth Kindig, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Such a cacophony means that the reader keeps having to leaf back to make sense of the storyline.
—Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2025
Afternoon shade or dappled shade is beneficial in the hottest climates or when planting a Japanese maple with green or highly dissected leaves (called cut-leaf, lace-leaf or dissectum) to avoid scorching.
—Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
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Verb
This is because of the increasing demands for networking and switches to connect exponentially larger clusters, from spine to leaf in the front end and back end, rack to rack and accelerator to accelerator.
—Beth Kindig, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Such a cacophony means that the reader keeps having to leaf back to make sense of the storyline.
—Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
Noun
Keep your lawn mowed regularly and remove leaf litter that can provide cover.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2025
Afternoon shade or dappled shade is beneficial in the hottest climates or when planting a Japanese maple with green or highly dissected leaves (called cut-leaf, lace-leaf or dissectum) to avoid scorching.
—Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
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Voters will decide whether to pass Proposition 50, a ballot initiative redrawing California’s congressional districts to flip five House seats from Republican to Democratic in next year’s midterms.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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In August 2020, five orcas chased a juvenile white shark, pushed it to the surface, and flipped it onto its back.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Bedding, Towels, and Linens Use clear bins (along with vacuum bags for more space) to sort sheet sets by size or towels by type.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Nov. 2025
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Inputs are applied as horizontal or vertical displacements at the sheet’s edges, and outputs appear as movements at other edges, matching the result of a matrix applied to the input vector.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Since then, several states have thumbed their nose at the order.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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Before Drew could say anything, Mike thumbed his collar and wandered off, still gazing at the color wheel.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Leaf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leaf. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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