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Recent Examples of leapfrog
Africa’s clean energy needs are surging as the continent seeks to leapfrog traditional infrastructure and provide electricity to the nearly 600 million people still without access.
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Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 5 June 2025
Stiller leapfrogged to the next wrung of Hollywood stardom, becoming a comedy kingpin for the next decade, while De Niro turned his tough guy persona on its head, extending his star power into the 21st century.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025
Fort Worth is now the 11th largest city in the United States, and leapfrogged Austin to become the fourth largest city in Texas.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 May 2025
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the most aggressive, floating that the justices should leapfrog the lower courts to immediately take up the issue, which no party suggested.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 15 May 2025
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Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 5 June 2025
Stiller leapfrogged to the next wrung of Hollywood stardom, becoming a comedy kingpin for the next decade, while De Niro turned his tough guy persona on its head, extending his star power into the 21st century.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025
Fort Worth is now the 11th largest city in the United States, and leapfrogged Austin to become the fourth largest city in Texas.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 May 2025
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the most aggressive, floating that the justices should leapfrog the lower courts to immediately take up the issue, which no party suggested.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leapfrog
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The at-bats are also ending with decent exit velocity and bad luck at times like Paul Goldschmidt being denied by a leaping catch by Jake Fraley.—
Larry Fleisher,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Shortly after Hostin landed on the mattress, Haines leaped over her and landed face-down on Hostin's legs as the women laughed.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
23 June 2025
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Last year, the Russians began including decoy drones with their Shahed drones to increase the likelihood of evading Ukrainian defenses.—
Vikram Mittal,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Cochran drove in a manner that indicated to Taylor that the sheriff was trying to evade him, Welch said.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
28 June 2025
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Subscribers can skip boxes without penalty, and first-time users can jump in with a one-off purchase.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
30 June 2025
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Ranged across the top of the SoundLink Plus there is a strip of soft-touch controls for turning the speaker on and off, initiating Bluetooth pairing, syncing with other Bose speakers, as well as playing and pausing music, skipping tracks and adjusting volume levels.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
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Each week spent on development and every disaster avoided adds to the company’s financial, reputational and customer support success.—
Sai Sandeep Ogety,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Without an aisle, the box occupants must seat themselves in order from front to back to avoid climbing over one another.—
Judith Martin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 June 2025
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The percentage of students assigning their schools an A grade also jumped to 31 percent, up from 22 percent in 2023.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025
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Running, jumping and pivoting are things that basketball players kind of do a lot during a game.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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Police on Friday captured one of the New Orleans parish inmates who escaped six weeks ago in a jailbreak Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry called the worst in recent state history.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 June 2025
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Whenever the lovers escape the family’s attention, the lighting designer Isabella Byrd throws deep shadows over their sometimes naked forms, turning their bodies into lubricious, moving Caravaggios.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
26 June 2025
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The typically sluggish Phil, outfitted from head to toe in the style of Professor Coltrane Von Tutt, bounded out onto the convention floor with dramatic flair, flipping his homemade purple cape vigorously from side to side.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
18 June 2025
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The same dog who once could barely walk now bounds across the shelter yard with joyful energy.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 June 2025
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This deliberately allusive narrative style enables the author to elude the topic of Nazism—or at least to hint at it in a covert way, thus making the novel acceptable to a wide German audience at the time of its publication in 1968.—
Ombline Damy,
JSTOR Daily,
26 June 2025
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The sun is hardly novel subject matter, but Zea eludes cliché through abstraction.—
Ana Karina Zatarain,
New Yorker,
21 June 2025
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“Leapfrog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leapfrog. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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