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as in thigh
a lower limb of an animal he broke his leg when he accidentally stepped in that gopher hole

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as in stage
a portion of a trip on the first leg of the cruise they went south to the Caribbean

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Recent Examples of leg Piana also had to be rescued from the same tunnels back in June 2023 after a rock fell and broke her leg, per The Times. Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024 The pants also include trendy wide legs to show off your kicks, like a pair of Veja look-alikes. Taylor Lane, StyleCaster, 18 Dec. 2024 Eilish will close the North American leg of her tour in Los Angeles on Friday before taking a break until February. Thania Garcia, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024 Note that this is different from chicken leg quarters, which has a portion of the back attached as well. Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for leg 
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Noun
  • The gunman then shot the driver in the left hand and thigh.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The lift is complete when the athlete stands upright with their shoulders back and the barbell at thigh level.
    Jakob Roze, Health, 5 Dec. 2024
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  • An engineering team needs to leverage the right technologies and tools to automate all three stages of a machine learning system—feature generation, model training, and model serving.
    William Mullane, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The photo was taken in Columbus, Ohio, about 48 miles east of Springfield, according to a July Reddit post. Sept. 9 and 10: The claim explodes on a national stage Vance was the first from the Republican presidential ticket to pounce.
    Maria Ramirez Uribe and Amy Sherman, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
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  • He was shot from behind just before 7 a.m. on Dec. 4 outside of the New York Hilton Midtown—where the meeting was being held—and was hit in the back and right calf, after which the suspect fled the area on foot and on an electric bike.
    Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • One of the 14-year-olds suffered a gunshot wound to his calf and was said to be in stable condition, CBS Philadelphia reported.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
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  • Porter sat next to her attorney with her hands folded in her lap, speaking only when the judge asked her a direct question.
    Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The toddlers who became my nieces and nephews called me Aunt Anna, settling in my lap.
    Anna Noyes, Bon Appétit, 16 Dec. 2024
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  • The conical pile of locks were inspired by the silhouette of fez and pillbox hats beloved by Jackie Onassis and fixed into place using a mixture of pins and copious hairspray.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The minute he de-planed in Broomfield, Deion Sanders stuck a giant CU pin on the national map again.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 Dec. 2024

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“Leg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leg. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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