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Recent Examples of leaf
Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
As one of the most popular spots for leaf peeping, the park offers an online live leaf camera for potential visitors to review current conditions of the trees.
—John Tufts, IndyStar, 4 Sep. 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
Another long-leaf cactus, the Spanish bayonet, was diabolically equipped with a blood groove.
—Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
As one of the most popular spots for leaf peeping, the park offers an online live leaf camera for potential visitors to review current conditions of the trees.
—John Tufts, IndyStar, 4 Sep. 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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If the measure passes, the new map could flip five Republican seats and solidify Democrats’ hold on others.—
Paiching Wei,
Mercury News,
22 Aug. 2025
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According to Jordan Schultz, the 49ers have landed Skyy Moore in a trade with the Chiefs that will flip 2027 sixth-round and seventh-round picks.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Despite the budget-friendly price point, the sheets are a clear favorite among Amazon shoppers as more than 6,000 have snapped them up in the past month alone, and a whopping 71,000 have awarded them a perfect rating.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Line a large baking sheet with paper towels.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
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That film now boasts a $247 million domestic haul, nothing to thumb your nose at, but nothing compared to the DCU's big Marvel counterprogramming for the summer season, Superman.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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Today, Lone Star state legislators are thumbing their noses at the longstanding political norm, followed by every other state, of waiting until the next census before redrawing their congressional districts.—
Mercury News Editorial,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Leaf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leaf. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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