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“With Zephyr, it’s like you can really appreciate all the little things, because he is interested in every leaf, and every stick, and every bug. It’s like a moment of zen.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Instead, they obtain nutrients through underground fungi and remain concealed beneath layers of leaf litter for nearly their entire lives.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
When a Canadian puts a maple leaf flag on his backpack, he isn’t simply saying, “I love Canada”; he’s also saying, “Don’t confuse me for an American, bud.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
"This isn't like a leaf floating on the top of the water," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
I gently run my fingers along the ridges of the begonia leaf as Mom calls the number Eddie gave me.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
As I told that 50-something bitcoin aficionado, investing 100% of your retirement money into bitcoin leaves you concentrated in highly volatile assets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
The short-video format leaves little room for nuance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The leaves in particular may deserve closer scrutiny.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
He said these statistical traces are akin to "fingerprints that a criminal leaves at a crime scene."
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
She leaves the Good Sisters orphanage to live on her grandmother’s coconut farm in Manila.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Fans marched to last Thursday’s afternoon game with Qatar wearing Canadian flags draped over their shoulders and headdresses that sprouted small maple leafs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Liudmyla leafs through an old photo album containing images of Mykola’s paintings, the closest thing he has to an artist’s monograph, and then brings out a few of the originals she’s packed away for safe-keeping.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
Invited to the family’s mansion, Martin is at once awed and seduced by its opulence; he hungrily studies an oil painting and leafs through a volume of Baudelaire.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2020
Walking with Gregory6 in bare treed October ash woods—winds blowing brown sere leafs at feet—talking of dead Jack—the sky an old familiar place with fragrant eyebrow clouds passing overhead in Fall Current—
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 20, 2019
She leafs through them, going “Oh, my” at the particularly good ones.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
At the airport, I leafed through the collection of mid-1800s botanical illustrations, unable to imagine a more appropriate souvenir.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
It’s just a 5-foot skinny stick now, but it has leafed out and is so beautiful and full of promise.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024
As I leafed through the anniversary book, I expected to be struck by how much things have changed in the past half-century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
She and the makeup artist Heba Thorisdottir leafed through the book “Least Wanted: A Century of American Mugshots” for examples of what unvarnished people of the era might look like.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
Tanin licked her fingertips and leafed through the book.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
Spend enough time cooking — or leafing through cookbooks in bed — and you notice certain ingredients keep reaching for one another.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
Shortly after opening time on a recent morning, the Kettering store already had a number of middle-aged customers milling about the space leafing through magazines—yes, it has those—or asking for advice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Leo Kelly—a devout Christian Iowan who was seen ascending the Senate dais, leafing through sensitive documents, and praying in the chamber—described it as “a blessing.”
From Slate ● May 28, 2026
Trees only delay leafing after actual infestations, which prevents insects from adapting to the change over time.
From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026
He pulled another comic book off his shelf and started leafing through it.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
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