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Lately, America’s adversaries seem to be taking a leaf out of his book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

This early-to-mid 19th century craft involves applying artwork, lettering and gold leaf backwards onto glass panes, as often seen in traditional pubs or shop fronts.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Rather than relying on one gene to determine leaf shape, evolution appears to modify different parts of a larger genetic network.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

"There's no leaf to it, they don't get any nutritional quality from this rubbish."

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Without crunching a weed, without rustling a leaf, the robot vanished into the thick foliage.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

Gov. Gavin Newsom, who leaves office next year, has stayed above the fray.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

But when Tony leaves for the day and is left to his own devices in Provincetown, the movie falls hard into all of the trite trappings of your average biopic.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

In the novel, musician Tyler Sinclair leaves home at 18, names his band after the town, gets famous and never looks back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Which leaves the possibility of a candidate standing against Infantino next March.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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

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

It’s a broadleaf weed that grows in colonies or large groups and have seed leafs that are round and oval with sparse stinging hairs.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023

After supper, Karzai said, he sometimes leafs through his old school books, partly to fend off feeling depressed, partly to see if he can retain some of his lessons.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2022

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

I grin as he leafs through it, and I glance around his office.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

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

I photographed the sweetgum tree outside my Brooklyn window, noting when it leafed into a bushy chlorophylled curtain or when it dropped fruit that fell to the ground like unshattered ornaments.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

I leafed past pages of TV stars, rock-and-roll groups, and pop idols.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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

Kote was leafing idly through a book, trying to ignore the silence of the empty inn, when the door opened and Graham backed into the room.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss