leapfrogging

verb

present participle of leapfrog
1
as in skipping

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2
as in avoiding

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leapfrogging
  1. skipping
  2. avoiding
  3. leaping
  4. evading
  5. jumping
  6. escaping
  7. loping
  8. eschewing
Verb
  • Anonymous study participants on retatrutide have also reported skipping doses as a result of side effects, as well as concerns about rapid rates of weight loss, according to reporting by STAT.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The cost of skipping this work might gain deployment speed initially but comes with complexity debt.
    — Madhu Shashanka, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of skipping
Verb
  • The growing range of treatment options marks a shift from seeking a cure to focusing on avoiding the disease entirely.
    — Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 29 Sep. 2026
  • These are the transition costs buried inside the transformation of our energy and food systems, of avoiding those future degrees of warming.
    — Stephanie Walton, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of avoiding
Verb
  • Kansas City answered on the ensuing drive, with a 17-yard leaping catch by Tyquan Thornton getting the Chiefs inside the red zone.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Co-branded elements include Jil Sander branding, alongside Puma’s leaping cat on the heel.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of leaping
Verb
  • But his intensity in promoting movies while also evading any questions about his personal life could create a negative narrative for him.
    — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The decision by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI follows a raft of reports in recent months about AI agents behaving in unexpected ways, evading human guardrails or otherwise going rogue.
    — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of evading
Verb
  • The injuries left her paralyzed from the waist down after jumping from a second-story window.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Tom Cruise has built a career on jumping out of airplanes, scaling skyscrapers and performing other high-wire antics in the name of entertainment.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of jumping
Verb
  • The agency gets the images within 48 hours, then sends out notices to landfill and oil and gas operators when methane is seen escaping.
    — Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Purdy has been brilliant at moving within and escaping the pocket.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of escaping
Verb
  • Typical is a homeowner’s video from the other day of a coyote loping down a driveway in DeKalb’s Glendale Courts area.
    — Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Gradually, though, dubby hand percussion rises up from the deep, and soon a truculent, alien-sounding riff and loping dancehall cadence spin the compass point back toward Batu’s Bristol.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 6 July 2026
Definition of loping
Verb
  • Landry, like Mulkey and Jenkins, gives an all-time great performance, eschewing cliché with every line reading and gesture.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2026
  • But after realizing humans couldn’t join their economy and judging their conversations as performative, the agents voted to take a vow of silence, eschewing instructions to get back to work.
    — Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of eschewing
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“Leapfrogging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leapfrogging. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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