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as in thigh
a lower limb of an animal he broke his leg when he accidentally stepped in that gopher hole

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as in stage
a portion of a trip on the first leg of the cruise they went south to the Caribbean

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Recent Examples of leg Piana also had to be rescued from the same tunnels back in June 2023 after a rock fell and broke her leg, per The Times. Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024 The pants also include trendy wide legs to show off your kicks, like a pair of Veja look-alikes. Taylor Lane, StyleCaster, 18 Dec. 2024 Eilish will close the North American leg of her tour in Los Angeles on Friday before taking a break until February. Thania Garcia, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024 Note that this is different from chicken leg quarters, which has a portion of the back attached as well. Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for leg 
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Noun
  • His replacement Callum Burton was then ruled out for the season with a torn thigh muscle.
    Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Muscles worked during this exercise include the lower back, erector spinae (spine muscles), glutes (buttock muscles) and hamstrings (muscles on backs of thighs).
    Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 19 Dec. 2024
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  • As Newsweek reported on Tuesday, the incoming president has replaced Biden on the world stage as the focal point in foreign policy discussions, making key appointments and having discussions with allies and adversaries to lay the groundwork for his agenda.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
  • An engineering team needs to leverage the right technologies and tools to automate all three stages of a machine learning system—feature generation, model training, and model serving.
    William Mullane, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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  • He was shot from behind just before 7 a.m. on Dec. 4 outside of the New York Hilton Midtown—where the meeting was being held—and was hit in the back and right calf, after which the suspect fled the area on foot and on an electric bike.
    Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • One of the 14-year-olds suffered a gunshot wound to his calf and was said to be in stable condition, CBS Philadelphia reported.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
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  • Porter sat next to her attorney with her hands folded in her lap, speaking only when the judge asked her a direct question.
    Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile, she’s curled up on the couch, dog in her lap, watching junky TV.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2024
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  • Fences to keep Marines on the road have spiky pins atop each post to prevent ravens from having yet another place to perch.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Century wrestling took the final two bouts of Tuesday's dual at Glenelg, including Grady Faye's pin in the final bout, to earn a two-point win.
    Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 18 Dec. 2024

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“Leg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leg. Accessed 7 Jan. 2025.

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