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
  • The molten salt strategy skips that chemical detour entirely.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
  • And deep sapphire gives the kind of counterculture cool girl who skips the gala hobnobbing for popping bottles with friends and stirring up good trouble around the town.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of skips
Verb
  • Grand hotels can often feel daunting with small children in tow, but Badrutt confidently avoids that trap.
    — Fergus Scholes, TheWeek, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Storing these propellants in their gaseous forms retains them in a less dense form but avoids the complexity of storage at cryogenic temperatures.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of avoids
Verb
  • The crowd jumps around, bearded men in the front singing along, kids on their parents’ shoulders pumping fists in the air, catharsis at the end of a long summer.
    — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 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 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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