leak

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Recent Examples of leak Diddy’s lawyers since accused the Department of Homeland Security of purposefully leaking the footage and last month accused CNN of editing and speeding up the video. Justin Curto, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025 But even if the iPhone 17 looks similar the iPhone 16, the Apple rumor mill has leaked hints about plenty of under-the-hood changes. Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2025 Instead of red mulch that can leak harmful chemicals into the soil, Betz recommends a natural bark mulch that looks more organic. Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025 Frequent Leaks Like any water-using appliance, a washing machine might start to leak for several different reasons. Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for leak
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Verb
  • The next year, the magazine sent Mr. Plimpton, who was known for writing about his blundering experiences trying to play professional football and golf, to count birds with Mr. Emanuel.
    Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Confidently rolling toward the Ukrainian 47th Mechanized Brigades in a long column of vehicles flying the red flag of the defunct Soviet Union, the Russian marines blundered into a preplanned kill zone.
    David Axe, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Some of those holes were quite small, about the size of a piece of paper, but water could nonetheless seep in and eventually flood the compartments.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
  • No one teaches them how to run the weatherproofing paper over the metal flashing to prevent water from seeping into a gable’s frame.
    Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The cups: The cups should fully contain your breasts without any gaping or spilling over.
    Bianca London, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Sitting inside Made in New York Pizza in Manhattan earlier this year, sporting a Haas top, Bearman spilled the details about his thrilling offseason project: putting together furniture for his Monaco apartment.
    Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Those morning drip coffees and lattes are going to cost more.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Before he could get started on it, however, the gable above the kitchen began dripping water onto a counter.
    Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Frequently Asked Questions At what temperature does wax paper melt? Wax melts when exposed to high heat, with a melting point of approximately 420°F and higher, so wax paper is best for cold applications in the kitchen.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2025
  • This case exposes a wide fissure in the foundation.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Having great synergy between leader and team will trickle into company margins over time, leading to wins for all.
    Jordan Rackie, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • News of weather balloon reductions has trickled in over the last month.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In September 2023, another investigation with Webb – an advanced telescope launched in 2021 outfitted with powerful infrared instruments – revealed something more: traces of carbon-bearing molecules in K2-18b's atmosphere, including methane and carbon dioxide.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • These measurements revealed a slow speed among the clusters, a key indicator that the galaxy lacks the strong gravitational pull expected from dark matter, the new study reports.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Scorpio: Meredith Palmer and Creed Bratton The creeper of The Office simply oozing with mystery, Creed Bratton, has many secrets and this is a quality of Scorpio, but is also weirdly honest about some of his strange behaviors, bordering on being inappropriate.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Blood can still ooze from a wound, even when it’s not being pumped through the body.
    Samuel Ashworth, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2025

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