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as in to seep
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as in to spill
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Recent Examples of leak
Anyone who is leaking information outside of – of how something is planned for the safety of those law enforcement officers needs to be held accountable for that.
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CBS News, 9 Mar. 2025
According to an investigation that remains ongoing, leaking fuel triggered a series of fires that shut down the spacecraft’s engines.
—Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
The news of Metcalf’s trade request leaked Wednesday afternoon, shortly after Seattle released receiver Tyler Lockett as a cap-saving measure.
—Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 7 Mar. 2025
Typically,the justices were told, spending before and after August 2022 was to replace leaking water mains and faulty valves.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2025
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CBS News, 9 Mar. 2025
According to an investigation that remains ongoing, leaking fuel triggered a series of fires that shut down the spacecraft’s engines.
—Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
The news of Metcalf’s trade request leaked Wednesday afternoon, shortly after Seattle released receiver Tyler Lockett as a cap-saving measure.
—Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 7 Mar. 2025
Typically,the justices were told, spending before and after August 2022 was to replace leaking water mains and faulty valves.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leak
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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
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Particularly the government's blundering attempts to deal with these new visitors.—
Grace Dean,
Space.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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Even in the dead of night, a good amount of light seeps in from the street.—
Christine Yu,
Outside Online,
17 Mar. 2025
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Something seeped in when her sense of accomplishment diminished.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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Jenna Ortega is spilling the tea on Wednesday‘s upcoming second season.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
16 Mar. 2025
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The solar wind ripples through the heavens, spilling electric-green light into the night.—
Nicole Trilivas,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Mar. 2025
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The euphoria courses through my body as the blood drips down my legs.—
Andy Collinson,
Health,
19 Mar. 2025
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Each of these works has a crenulated indentation and a line descending it (or drip as the case may be).—
Tom Teicholz,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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Listen to this article Over 700,000 current and former Chicago Public School students’ information was exposed following a data breach last month.—
Ikram Mohamed,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2025
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The big picture: The Darién Gap is a 60-mile, roadless, treacherous jungle of crocodiles, snakes, harsh terrain and drug gangs that human rights groups say exposes migrants to harm and disease.—
Russell Contreras,
Axios,
13 Mar. 2025
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That wasn’t strictly true—we’d passed at least one lady sipping cocktails at the bar, and a few more eventually trickled in to be seated for dinner—but the room was, on each of my visits, overwhelmingly a room of men.—
Helen Rosner,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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Elon Musk’s cost-cutting crusade is trickling down to U.S. statehouses.—
Bloomberg News,
Boston Herald,
8 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The final moments of the episode also reveal that the parasitic alien Sequids are still roaming the sewers, the bloodthirsty Battle Beast is alive in space and Angstrom Levy (Sterling K. Brown) survived the Invincible War.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2025
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Henry had been suspended in 2016 by Fox's chairman at the time, Roger Ailes, when tabloid reports revealed his relationship with a Las Vegas hostess.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
13 Mar. 2025
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Notice his stance, feet spread wider than shoulder width apart, oozing confidence.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
Fox News,
9 Mar. 2025
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Draper, oozing charm and confidence in his expensive suit, is the quintessential ad man—a modern-day David Ogilvy, whose book Confessions of an Advertising Man once defined the industry.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Leak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leak. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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