LEAKS Synonyms: 129 Similar and Opposite Words

leaks

verb

present tense third-person singular of leak

as in blunders

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Verb

And then Ron somehow blunders his way into getting the number jacked up to $100,000 in return for their silence.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026

Definition of blunders

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Omnivores should punch up the platter with the special beef kitfo, raw steak that drips with herbed, purified butter and gets its fiery kick from mitmita, a spice blend with chile peppers.

— Warren Rojas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026
Massage tools now sit alongside health trackers and IV drips as one of the discretionary categories where younger consumers are outspending everyone else.

— Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of drips

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Hundreds of protesters rallied outside Israel’s embassy in Bangkok, demanding that foreign visitors — especially Israelis — stop flouting Thai laws and customs as anger over tourist misconduct spills into the streets.

— Jintamas Saksornchai, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Liang Manqi, known for geometric abstraction, presents an installation in which painting spills off the canvas and onto walls, floors and three-dimensional structures.

— Denni Hu, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of spills

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O’Kane shouts when Tom Brokaw announces that one of the men suspected of plotting the attack has been detained.

— Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Fighters loyal to the Houthi authorities, shouts slogans during a rally to recruit more fighters, in Sanaa on September 10, 2026.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of shouts

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Continue reading … 'INSULTING' — Ex-Dem insider exposes what Harris told top donors days before Biden dropped out.

— , FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Treating them as interchangeable exposes organizations to operational, regulatory and security risks that governance frameworks were never designed to address.

— Neeraj Sabharwal, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of exposes

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Leaders who never fully disconnect from their work can never fully recover, and this effect trickles down through the organization.

— Tony Loyd, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
That typically trickles down to consumers through higher prices — and, as seen over the last year, can also create uncertainty for workers across affected sectors.

— Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of trickles

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