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
  • 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
  • Her subscription-only website features content that leaps over gender boundaries, and has pulled in fans around the globe.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 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
  • Calibrating policy under current conditions is complicated by Warsh's push for a more mercurial Fed that avoids signaling where policy is heading, preferring for markets to take their own signals from incoming data.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The proportions remain practical, and the overall design avoids some of the visual excesses found elsewhere in the segment.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of avoids
Verb
  • It's only bound to stay that way once the MacBook Air line jumps to the newest M6 chip and the MacBook Neo to a later version of the A series.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Jayaprakash said capacity planning is one of the hardest parts of the business, because demand jumps every time a stronger model comes out.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of jumps
Verb
  • In the book, a fictional AI escapes its lab, runs copies of itself on machines no one is watching, and eventually releases a virus over time.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Network-level protections provide another barrier if an agent escapes its initial sandbox.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 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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