leashing

present participle of leash

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Verb
  • The largest came on the final play, as Texas couldn’t get back to the line of scrimmage in time to spike the ball and continue a possible game-tying drive.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The 49ers won five games a season ago, tying for the second-best record in the program’s history.
    Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That concentration makes capture relatively straightforward by routing the exhaust through chemical scrubbers, binding the CO2, compressing and storing it underground.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The Politics of Retreat In the UK, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, seeking to head off pressure from Reform, has pledged to repeal the landmark 2008 Climate Change Act, which established binding carbon budgets and created the independent Climate Change Committee.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Imelda pulled away from the Bahamas Monday evening after lashing the islands with heavy rain, tropical storm-force winds and storm surge for two days.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Loners lashing out America has had genuine subversives and left-wing terror networks in the past.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The 35-day government shutdown that stretched from December 2018 to January 2019 ended after 10 air traffic controllers stayed home, snarling air traffic.
    Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Credit Tim Curry, whose snarling Pennywise is more grounded than Bill Skarsgård's monstrous interpretation — and arguably more effective.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Leashing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leashing. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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