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Recent Examples of leaf
Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
Some prefer to wait in leaf litter or dead logs, and others like to scale tall grass or other vegetation, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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—Katie Wiseman, Louisville Courier Journal, 31 July 2025
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
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Verb
Like a roof over their head, leaf litter acts as protection for soil fauna, but not from a group of researchers studying the environment.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
Some prefer to wait in leaf litter or dead logs, and others like to scale tall grass or other vegetation, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Unable to view our graphics?
—Katie Wiseman, Louisville Courier Journal, 31 July 2025
Noun
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leaf
Verb
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Gavin Newsom of California and Kathy Hochul of New York to consider counter-efforts to redraw their state’s congressional boundaries to flip GOP seats to Democrats.—
Rick Pearson,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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Swigert flipped switches inside the command module.—
Kelly Meyerhofer,
jsonline.com,
8 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Each of the episodes, which are between three to five minutes long, includes a downloadable craft sheet.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
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Sanders emphasized statistics, gave out fact sheets, and even told stories of signing death certificates of children in traffic accidents.—
Time,
Time,
5 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Audience members are stunned—none more so than those watching at home on YouTube, who swiftly thumb in their words of reassurance.—
Laura Holliday,
Wired News,
15 Aug. 2025
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With the sixth round of negotiations just two days away, however, Israel thumbed its nose at the United States and launched an attack on Iran anyway.—
Ron Paul,
Oc Register,
10 July 2025
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“Leaf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leaf. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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