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Recent Examples of leaky
The leaky sink that doesn’t get fixed.
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Sumathy Kumar, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
Amanda Calabrese and Greta Meyer are looking to fix one of the most persistent problems facing women athletes—leaky tampons.
—Luisa Beltran, Sportico.com, 11 Mar. 2026
Its decades-long monitoring in the bay documented seagrass loss that helped restart flagging efforts to stop pollution flowing from stormwater and leaky septic tanks in 2019.
—Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
Those fixes have nothing to do with the leaky roof that upended multiple recent events.
—Charlotte Observer, 5 Mar. 2026
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Sumathy Kumar, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
Amanda Calabrese and Greta Meyer are looking to fix one of the most persistent problems facing women athletes—leaky tampons.
—Luisa Beltran, Sportico.com, 11 Mar. 2026
Its decades-long monitoring in the bay documented seagrass loss that helped restart flagging efforts to stop pollution flowing from stormwater and leaky septic tanks in 2019.
—Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
Those fixes have nothing to do with the leaky roof that upended multiple recent events.
—Charlotte Observer, 5 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leaky
porous
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These are embedded in a porous conductive matrix that supports in situ prelithiation and stabilizes covalent interfaces.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Mar. 2026
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Brooklyn’s defense was porous, the offense looked disconnected, and the Nets didn’t have enough healthy bodies to survive another slow start.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Leaky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leaky. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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