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Recent Examples of leaf
Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2025
This might burn a small brown spot on the leaf, but the damage is strictly cosmetic.
—Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 5 July 2025
Beth Kindig, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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
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Verb
These are piercing, sucking feeders that can reduce plant vigor and lead to some leaf decline.
—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2025
This might burn a small brown spot on the leaf, but the damage is strictly cosmetic.
—Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 5 July 2025
Noun
This is because of the increasing demands for networking and switches to connect exponentially larger clusters, from spine to leaf in the front end and back end, rack to rack and accelerator to accelerator.
—Beth Kindig, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leaf
Verb
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As this tragedy unfolds, every stone should be flipped to find ways to prevent such horrific loss of life.—
Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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Video showed masses of children, many in shorts and flip flops or barefoot, standing in an indoor basketball gymnasium.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
6 July 2025
Noun
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There are more than 25 miles of trails in the area, according to a Forest Service fact sheet.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
1 July 2025
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The verdict sheet that has been given to jurors in order to decide his fate recently leaked online, revealing that the decision is more complex than people may have expected.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
1 July 2025
Verb
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During the 2024 legislative session, Tipton's version of the bill needed just one last call to the floor, one final thumbs up from House members.—
Stephanie Kuzydym,
The Courier-Journal,
3 July 2025
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More than 1,600 reviewers give this cheesy pasta two thumbs up – or five stars.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
22 June 2025
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“Leaf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leaf. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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