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Recent Examples of leaf
Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
The trees should leaf out normally.
—oregonlive, 11 June 2022
Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 30 Oct. 2024
Visitors can head north to do a little leaf peeping of their own.
—Todd Plummer, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2024
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Verb
Such a cacophony means that the reader keeps having to leaf back to make sense of the storyline.
—Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
The trees should leaf out normally.
—oregonlive, 11 June 2022
Noun
For a team that lamented its exhaustion and maybe even over-exertion by the end of a heartbreaking Game 7 last season, a road back-to-back with both games requiring overtime wasn’t exactly the ideal formula to turn over a new leaf.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 30 Oct. 2024
Visitors can head north to do a little leaf peeping of their own.
—Todd Plummer, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2024
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The groups’ American Electorate Voter Poll — using a larger Latino sample and additional techniques for polling Hispanics — flipped that outcome, with Harris winning 56% of Latino men to Trump’s 43%.Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Having taken Seamus outside the wake, the British flipped him by offering the prospect of a better life for him and his wife in London.Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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The ski’s general architecture features a wood core, sandwich sidewall construction, and a sheet of vibration-damping metal that’s customized for each model in the Ranger line.Outside Editors, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
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To prevent future crises, world leaders are trying to even out the balance sheet… Integrating the Americas: FTAA and Beyond; Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond Free trade agreements are the contemporary equivalent of security alliances.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
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Rather than accommodating Washington, however, Netanyahu thumbed his nose at Obama in the United Nations, Congress, and other venues.Chris Miller, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2015
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Its highest-profile suspects—Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), the rebel group that has terrorized northern Uganda and neighboring areas—have thumbed their noses at the court and are evading arrest.David Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2011
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“Leaf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leaf. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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