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leaflet

[leef-lit] / ˈlif lɪt /




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At the entrance to one registration office, a maternity health leaflet wishes newlyweds “a happy marriage and a speedy pregnancy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

In 2016 a leaflet came through the door, detailing UWP and what Long could offer.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

In an exclusive interview, Michelle Dyson said patients were "too often diagnosed, discharged and sent home with little more than a leaflet".

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Mui offers him a leaflet in case he wants more information, and the man refuses to take it.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025

Mutti barely glances at the leaflet, doesn't even think it over.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

"I will be in the city centre to hand out leaflets, answer questions, give directions, be a visible symbol of the volunteers, so people can approach me."

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Rhode Island’s Morticia, named for the Addams Family matriarch, spent much of its life as a single leaf stalk with multiple leaflets before going dormant, leaving what looked like a big pot of dirt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

A civil protection officer handed out bottles of water and leaflets on how to behave in the extreme heat, standing in front of a 3,000-litre tanker feeding the mister and the crowds around it.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Those sponsored leaflets and postcard mailers that end up as makeshift coasters, mosquito swatters or unread refuse that goes straight from the mailbox into the blue recycle bin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

All 3 billion of us are being connected by telephones, radios, television sets, airplanes, satellites, harangues on public-address systems, newspapers, magazines, leaflets dropped from great heights, words got in edgewise.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Outraged by the increase, the 65-year-old leafletted all houses on the estate and challenged the bill, eventually negotiating the lower fee for all 120 households.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2024

“They shouted obscenities, disparaged Heartbeat’s staff, volunteers, and supporters, and leafletted the venue with propaganda hoping to dissuade women from using Heartbeat’s services,” said the complaint.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

They leafleted the neighbours trying to make them aware of what Mr Jammeh was accused of doing back home.

From BBC ● May 27, 2022

I have leafleted and phoned with other union members to ensure transit funding.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2022

They leafleted neighborhoods, black and white, with fliers meant to both intimidate and recruit.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2018

The musicians union said its members recently leafleted outside a desert location shoot in Pearblossom, Calif., calling upon the show's production company, Picrow, to recognize musicians' right to a labor contract.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2016

The IDF has also robo-called and leafleted neighborhoods, warning people to clear out before the area is invaded.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2014

According to Amnesty, the jihadists had been leafleting the two villages for the last five months.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

This will include members of the chorus leafleting the public outside the Wales Millennium Centre, where the production is taking place.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024

But the accord doesn’t clearly state civilian leafleting should also be banned.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

The document includes detailed rundowns of union activities, such as leafleting conducted last year in five cities it says had “known” union-aligned employees, and a “marked increase in flyer distribution” early this year.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

The second report, broadcast in mid-December, was about a leafleting campaign in Paris accusing a former state prosecutor in Qatar of corruption.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2023

She hinted that balloons could become the North’s standard response to leafletting moving forward, saying that the North would respond by “scattering rubbish dozens of times more than those being scattered to us.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024

Among other things, Tesla security guards repeatedly ordered union organizers to stop leafletting in Tesla’s parking lots and fired one union organizer for allegedly lying during a company investigation.

From The Verge ● Oct. 1, 2019

Volunteers started liking, sharing, leafletting, knocking on doors.

From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019

Who will find the flyposting, the leafletting, the crowds on the Royal Mile and the endless procession of performers just a tad annoying.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2011

Choudary and some of his followers had advertised the event by leafletting for a week among the 20,000-strong Muslim population in the town, says Bunglawala, who has closely tracked Choudary's career.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2011




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