as in to jump
to propel oneself upward or forward into the air
the outfielder leaped into the air to catch the ball before it went over the fence
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Ajay Narendra, JSTOR Daily, 6 Mar. 2025
There is no length societies will not go to, no absurd logical leap people won’t take to recast our simple, human act of survival as something dirty and shameful.
—Amanda Nguyen, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
IEEE Spectrum, 13 Mar. 2025
There are certain plays that, no matter the production, leap straight through your ears to your soul every time.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Others, like fleas, use energy stored in internal structures that are rapidly released to trigger a leap.
—Ajay Narendra, JSTOR Daily, 6 Mar. 2025
There is no length societies will not go to, no absurd logical leap people won’t take to recast our simple, human act of survival as something dirty and shameful.
—Amanda Nguyen, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
Verb
Most of us have encountered a few software engineers who seem practically magician-like, a class apart from the rest of us in their ability to reason about complex mental models, leap to nonobvious yet elegant solutions, or emit waves of high-quality code at unreal velocity.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Mar. 2025
There are certain plays that, no matter the production, leap straight through your ears to your soul every time.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
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“Leap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leap. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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