leapfrogs

verb

present tense third-person singular of leapfrog
1
as in leaps

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as in evades

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leapfrogs
  1. leaps
  2. evades
  3. skips
  4. avoids
  5. jumps
  6. escapes
  7. lopes
  8. eludes
Verb
  • Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard leaps between two futuristic taxi cabs.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The screen leaps from LCD to OLED, the processor jumps from the A17 Pro to the A20 Pro, and the 2026 iPad mini is the first-ever waterproof tablet from Apple.
    — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of leaps
Verb
  • Neither of those interpretations would be entirely invalid, exactly, and yet The Basics of Philosophy — ironically enough, given its title — mostly evades any such moral didacticism.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Journalists and negotiators follow up when someone evades the point.
    — Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of evades
Verb
  • Triple-tapping skips forward or backward on the right and left earbud, respectively.
    — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Then deal with the bedroom, which is the part everyone skips.
    — Randy J. Nelson, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of skips
Verb
  • Keser Clinic avoids mega-sessions, preferring to split large cases across multiple days rather than attempting very high graft counts in a single sitting.
    — Burak Onal, Sacbee.com, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Closing the tax code’s carveouts to special interests would help, but there is no path to sustainability that avoids cutting (or slowing the growth of) benefits, raising eligibility ages to reflect longer lives and putting Medicare on a budget.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of avoids
Verb
  • Twenty percent of Americans regularly get news from TikTok, and that number jumps to 39 percent for people 18 to 29 years old, Pew found.
    — Mia Sato, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Meta seeks to raise up to $25 billion in debt sale as AI spending jumps.
    — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of jumps
Verb
  • As the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics explains, energy confinement time describes how quickly thermal energy escapes from the plasma, rather than how long an experiment runs.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
  • The host enters the water, where the worm escapes from its body and begins the next stage of its life cycle.
    — Tara Deans, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of escapes
Verb
  • After sunset, when everyone lopes back from the beach, there are a few couples hitching their gear onto motor scooters and a few families carrying babies, bags, and boards, toddlers in tow.
    — Michelle Jana Chan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of lopes
Verb
  • Max Mathews Everton With one week to go until the start of the season, a new right-back still eludes Everton.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Although Futterman adeptly surveys tennis’s stressors, the shape of the crisis that tennis faces, and its stakes, eludes him.
    — Josh Levin, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026
Definition of eludes
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