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as in to seep
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as in to spill
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Recent Examples of leak
At 39 weeks, the Rhodes founder began leaking amniotic fluid and had to be induced.
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Kayla Grant, People.com, 20 May 2025
The warning was issued in a letter to Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, and leaked after authorities failed to respond to the Association of Petroleum Professionals’ alarming cry for help.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
From early in Dylan’s career, recordings of his music would be leaked, shared and sold as bootlegs at an almost cartoonish rate.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2025
Michael Fassbender plays a British intelligence officer tasked with finding who leaked a top-secret software program and betrayed their country, and the list of five potentially traitorous suspects includes his own high-profile wife (Cate Blanchett).
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 May 2025
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Kayla Grant, People.com, 20 May 2025
The warning was issued in a letter to Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, and leaked after authorities failed to respond to the Association of Petroleum Professionals’ alarming cry for help.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
From early in Dylan’s career, recordings of his music would be leaked, shared and sold as bootlegs at an almost cartoonish rate.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2025
Michael Fassbender plays a British intelligence officer tasked with finding who leaked a top-secret software program and betrayed their country, and the list of five potentially traitorous suspects includes his own high-profile wife (Cate Blanchett).
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leak
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But rather than punishing the mistake, the Olympian immediately blundered his rook, leaving it exposed to Eze’s knight.—
Conor O'Neill,
New York Times,
10 May 2025
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Gene and Wendell wouldn’t start to look for me until dark, and this bear was nothing to blunder into at night.—
Howard Copenhaver,
Outdoor Life,
23 Apr. 2025
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The chemicals seep into soil and wash into waterways that flow into the bay from landfills, airports, industrial sites, military bases and sewage treatment plants.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
20 May 2025
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Instead, this antagonistic virtuoso has started letting the sticky dark feelings fueling those nightmares seep into other genres.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
20 May 2025
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Ellie doesn’t know that Joel killed Abby’s father until she’s already spilled a small army’s worth of blood in retaliation.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 May 2025
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And now, four years later, their fruitful plot spills over with all kinds of produce and flowers, including blackberries, cosmos, green beans, eggplants, and a handful of apple trees, among other things.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
25 May 2025
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Slowly drip mixture into cold oil to form the ‘caviar’.—
Claudia Alarcón,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Rafael Nadal was a tennis warrior, to be sure: a competitive beast dripping with sweat and relentless in-the-moment ambition who could give the opposition a faraway gaze in a hurry.—
Christopher Clarey,
Air Mail,
24 May 2025
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While two siblings are interned and forced to work, cut off from the outside world, the other two are exempt and work to expose the horrors of the camps.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
25 May 2025
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The suit seeks justice for the survivors and aims to expose systemic failures in the juvenile justice system.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
24 May 2025
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As professional tools scale up, the new thresholds of power and capability trickle down into consumer systems.—
Brian Westover,
PC Magazine,
24 May 2025
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Redefining Leadership and Empowerment In a world without desks and doors, culture doesn’t trickle down from the top.—
Nirit Cohen,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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The observations revealed the companion galaxy is moving toward the quasar-hosting galaxy at about 1.2 million miles per hour (2 million kilometers per hour), indicating the two are in the midst of a high-speed collision.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
24 May 2025
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Phase 2 redevelopment of the Fort Worth Stockyards may be on hold due to disputes between the project’s developers, court documents have revealed.—
Kate Marijolovic,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 May 2025
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This year, that cinematic quality was brought to life by the likes of Rihanna, Zoë Saldaña, Taraji P. Henson, and more special guests whose fashion moments oozed with theatrics, and intention.—
Karissa Mitchell,
Essence,
23 May 2025
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But the dog is dripping blood and oozing pus, and his testicles are swollen like a balloon.—
Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
20 May 2025
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“Leak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leak. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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