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leafs

verb

present tense third-person singular of leaf

as in flips

to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner we must have spent hours leafing through wallpaper books before we found something we both liked

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flips

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But there are equal chances that the trend flips in the next month of the season.

— Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
SaaS was built on paying for seats, one subscription per human user, but agentic-as-a-service flips that logic.

— Salvatore Lombardo, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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