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Recent Examples of leaky
Maybe the Dodgers’ dominant rotation and leaky bullpen could somehow lead to another baseball revolution in the way players are deployed.
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Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 15 Oct. 2025
Sturgis started small at HBI, assembling furniture and fixing leaky faucets, while working 10-hour night shifts at a warehouse.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
Ingredient prices continue to soar, as do the rates for necessary repairs — the faulty range, the leaky roof.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
Sure, the defense was leaky and yielded the tying touchdown with 36 seconds remaining in regulation, a fourth-and-goal conversion from the 11 - Tommy Castellanos hit a diving Randy Pittman in the left corner of the end zone.
—David Teel, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
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Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 15 Oct. 2025
Sturgis started small at HBI, assembling furniture and fixing leaky faucets, while working 10-hour night shifts at a warehouse.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
Ingredient prices continue to soar, as do the rates for necessary repairs — the faulty range, the leaky roof.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
Sure, the defense was leaky and yielded the tying touchdown with 36 seconds remaining in regulation, a fourth-and-goal conversion from the 11 - Tommy Castellanos hit a diving Randy Pittman in the left corner of the end zone.
—David Teel, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leaky
porous
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After all, the human and the alien in Lanthimos’s films have always been divided by the most porous of membranes.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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By engineering support layer architecture, thin-film nanocomposite membranes counteract internal concentration polarization and salt accumulation within the membrane’s porous structure, reducing the driving force for water flow.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Leaky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leaky. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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