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The defense remains leaky, but the important part was avoiding a bad loss (the same bad loss that knocked Stanford out of consideration).
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Jim Root, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
More than a dozen other signs reference a former redlight district, the Civil War, and a presidential party abandoning a leaky ship and swimming to shore.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 11 Mar. 2026
The leaky sink that doesn’t get fixed.
—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
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Jim Root, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
More than a dozen other signs reference a former redlight district, the Civil War, and a presidential party abandoning a leaky ship and swimming to shore.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 11 Mar. 2026
The leaky sink that doesn’t get fixed.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leaky
porous
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At the same time, cross-border data flows remain porous, creating asymmetries that further complicate the landscape.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Mar. 2026
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Produce is porous and can absorb those chemicals.—
Allison Palmer,
Sacbee.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Leaky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leaky. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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