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Recent Examples of leaf
Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 22 July 2025
Remove the lower third of the plant's leaves to improve air circulation and speed leaf drying after rain and irrigation.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 12 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
In 2016, nicotine pouches were introduced to the U.S. market, which are microfiber sachets containing nicotine but no tobacco leaf and have gained in popularity in recent years.
—Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 22 July 2025
Remove the lower third of the plant's leaves to improve air circulation and speed leaf drying after rain and irrigation.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 12 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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This meal actually earned high marks for flavor and texture, but there was one big problem: The heating instructions for this meal ask you to flip the steak halfway through the cooking process.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
15 July 2025
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To flip the script, more young people must be able to identify and access the skills to participate in a digital and green economy.—
Cynthia Tully,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
Noun
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Add extra blankets and sheets made from feathers, down, or wool to trap heat.—
Alyssa Hui-Anderson,
Verywell Health,
15 July 2025
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From sheet masks to glass skin to BB creams to cushion compacts, K-beauty has brought countless innovations to the US.—
Celia Shatzman,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
Verb
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Perhaps equally repugnant is the thought that a magazine that once thumbed its nose seems to have shifted its hand and sadly scratches an ear.—
John Updike,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
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And now: Hardy has evolved since then into a rock star adept at making country music that thumbs its nose at mainstream expectations.—
Laura L. Davis,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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“Leaf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leaf. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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