leech
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“I felt Tom Branson was the only one we hadn’t really settled in the series,” Leech told me in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025
Craig Leech, who has worked at McVitie's for 21 years, started off in the factory by putting the chocolate on top of the biscuits.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2025
For 65-year-old Phil Leech from Pinxton, Day Fever was chance to "meet new people" and it was his night out "in 20 years", he said.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2024
Sunset gives way to star-speckled skies as you slowly make your make across snow-covered forest floor and circle around Leech Lake.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2023
Leech the doctor comes from the Indo-European leg, which meant to collect, with numerous derivatives meaning to speak.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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