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as in to seep
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as in to spill
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According to a different article by NPR, Haugen leaked internal Meta research showing that 13.5% of teen girls said Instagram worsens suicidal thoughts and 17% of teen girls say that Instagram contributes to their eating disorders.
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Alison Escalante, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
All or any of those theories could explain the decision to step back from the documentary footage, however, Harry's absence from Polo first leaked via the Daily Mail back in September in an article that suggested Netflix was not happy with the approach and wanted more bang for its buck.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Then a whistleblower told Trump aides that a woman had accused Hegseth of raping her in a Monterey hotel in 2017, and the story promptly leaked.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
The instructions also tell you to shake the jar after adding water, but our testers found that coffee can leak out even if it’s sealed tight, which seems to be a common Mason jar problem.
—Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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Alison Escalante, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
All or any of those theories could explain the decision to step back from the documentary footage, however, Harry's absence from Polo first leaked via the Daily Mail back in September in an article that suggested Netflix was not happy with the approach and wanted more bang for its buck.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Then a whistleblower told Trump aides that a woman had accused Hegseth of raping her in a Monterey hotel in 2017, and the story promptly leaked.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
The instructions also tell you to shake the jar after adding water, but our testers found that coffee can leak out even if it’s sealed tight, which seems to be a common Mason jar problem.
—Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leak
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But Cleveland blundered in getting Colavito back, just as the team had in sending him away.Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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As Burroughs’s alter ego, a blundering heroin addict pining after a younger man, the actor manages to be uncool onscreen for the first time ever.Nate Jones, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2024
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Research suggests that heavy drinking may compromise the lining of your gut, which could allow more inflammation-inducing components of bacteria to seep through and enter your blood too.Erica Sloan, SELF, 18 Dec. 2024
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Reported profiles allow authors to seep into their writing, often learning something about their own lives through those of their subjects.Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2024
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Onto the page spilled more than ten thousand lines of the richest and most resourceful blank verse in the English language, arranged into ten books in 1667, then rearranged into twelve in 1674.Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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When a snowstorm hits a small Midwestern town, romance sparks and secrets spill among its teenage population.James Mercadante, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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Allow excess egg to drip off and transfer the chops to the plate with the panko mixture.Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
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By dissolving its cap, the mushroom ensures that its spores can drip down and spread to the greatest lengths possible.Scott Travers, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Officials in Arizona this week said nearly a half-dozen animals including a cheetah and a mountain lion at a Phoenix-area zoo died and others are sick after being exposed to the bird flu.Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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The parking payment app ParkMobile, which operates in Detroit and numerous other Michigan cities, has agreed to a $32.8 million settlement after a 2021 data breach exposed the information of more than 21 million users.Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2024
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The company hasn’t built a new, more intelligent bot so much as an interface in the style of iMovie and Premiere Pro. Already, videos that OpenAI staff and early-access users generated with Sora are trickling onto social media, and a deluge from users the world over will follow.Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
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Mature Trees Allow a hose to trickle beneath the tree, soaking the entire area beneath the canopy.Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Dec. 2024
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The first minutes of Dexter: Original Sin reveal that Dexter Morgan lives.Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
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Interestingly, the data reveal a divide between playoff teams and those narrowly missing the cut.Giovanni Malloy, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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People who ooze humility don’t run for President, after all.Philip Elliott, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
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Pair it with biker boots and tights to ooze nonchalant cool.Esme Benjamin, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Leak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leak. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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