leaking

verb

present participle of leak
1
as in blundering

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2
as in dripping

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3
as in spilling

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leaking
  1. blundering
  2. dripping
  3. spilling
  4. ejaculating
  5. seeping
  6. exposing
  7. shouting
  8. trickling
Verb
  • Only a blundering idiot could spoil such an alliance and threaten damage to Florida’s economy.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2026
  • On Monday, the first day of the trial in which Basabe is representing himself without an attorney, the proceedings were shaded by Basabe’s blundering legal missteps and procedural chaos.
    — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026
Definition of blundering
Verb
  • She’s gutted, her insides ripped out, and hung from a tree in the yard, dripping with blood.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2026
  • After his friend pulled off his attacker, Sais said he was chased to the Mercantile Saloon, dripping with blood.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of dripping
Verb
  • Clearly, the impacts of the AI investment surge are spilling beyond the tech sector itself, gradually transmitting into corporate bond issuance, long-term interest rates, and the broader debate surrounding US monetary policy.
    — , CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Surrounding landowners have hired them to keep people from spilling over onto their beaches.
    — Debbie Elliott, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of spilling
Verb
  • Skarsgård’s character James ejaculating at the beach after a sudden handjob by Mia Goth’s freewheeling Gabi.
    — Gustavo Turner, HollywoodReporter, 1 Apr. 2026
Definition of ejaculating
Verb
  • The bloodshed returns after another 11-year hiatus, but the spatter is messier, thicker, and darker, seeping into a new vision by Ready or Not directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Still, traces of background radioactivity sometimes break the subterranean silence, with that activity piercing through LZ’s mile of protective bedrock or even seeping out of the materials lining the detector’s walls.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of seeping
Verb
  • Kenya’s crackdown on foreign small-scale traders is exposing a tension at the heart of President William Ruto’s economic agenda in trying to protect jobs for Kenyans while keeping the country open to overseas capital and regional trade.
    — Vivianne Wandera, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • His legal team has alleged that OpenAI is knowingly exposing members of the disabled community to unacceptable risks.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of exposing
Verb
  • Getting around interference The biggest technical hurdle in spectrum sharing is interference – what happens when two signals overlap and scramble each other, like two people shouting different things in your ear at the same time.
    — Aylin Yener, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Those who speak a password, released via social media, receive a fake business card, which does mean many a guest is standing there shouting a password at the actor.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of shouting
Verb
  • Then the orders started trickling into her store, too, and that envy was quickly replaced by confusion.
    — Francesca Mancino, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026
  • As the complete genome sequences of other model organisms began trickling in, Wolfe used his bioinformatics expertise to look for genome duplications there.
    — Carrie Arnold Contributing, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of trickling
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