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Recent Examples of leaf
Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Every year, the Department of Public Works collects leaf piles throughout the city, eventually recycling the leaves into compost to be sold locally.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 25 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
Green-up in spring, a full canopy in summer, color change and leaf drop in the fall is an essential rhythm that has kept time in forests for millennia.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Every year, the Department of Public Works collects leaf piles throughout the city, eventually recycling the leaves into compost to be sold locally.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 25 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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Even as the calendar flipped to September and the clinch appeared obvious, the idea of October was sidestepped.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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This year, the fair has pulled out all the stops with over 60 rides ready to spin, flip, splash, and thrill you.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Put the wings on a sheet tray in the fridge overnight.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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Kyle Macaulay, the head of recruitment, emailed the team sheet to Sullivan, who was not pleased with the line-up.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Israel, a small nation dependent on our country for military support, is thumbing its nose at us, the most powerful country in the world.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
17 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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“Leaf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leaf. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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