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leaflet

[leef-lit] / ˈlif lɪt /




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The barrister said the leaflet had been sent to about 81,000 people before the issue was raised.

From BBC Feb. 25, 2026

"You go to the website of your council, you take a screenshot, you attach it to a leaflet then you write in big letters, whatever the main message is."

From BBC Jan. 8, 2026

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

From Slate Oct. 27, 2025

Of the 107 young people brought into custody during the pilot, 97% accepted an information leaflet about the service.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2025

National Park Service, which constantly distinguishes itself in a variety of ways, manages in a single leaflet to give the length of the trail as 2,155 miles and 2,200 miles.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

“She walked around those halls just putting her head into offices unannounced, picking up leaflets, starting conversations to find out what programs existed that could benefit her community,” Orleck explained.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 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

Day and night, they printed thousands of new, even bolder, leaflets on a hand-cranked duplicating machine, possibly purchased with the money Sophie asked to borrow from Fritz.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

In the past, local pit villages and council estates have been leafleted to advertise the Baltic as a centre for everyone.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2025

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

Quayle campaign aides liked the series so much they leafleted reporters in New Hampshire who were covering the Bush-Quayle re-election effort, Kurtz reported.

From Slate Nov. 25, 2009

Sir Michael confirmed he would not seek re-election in future and said that aside from helping with leafleting, he had now turned his back on politics.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2025

The party is proud of its so-called "ground war" – the pavement pounding, door knocking and leafleting that goes on away from the cameras.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2024

In 2020, North Korea blew up an empty South Korean-built liaison office on its territory after a furious response to South Korean civilian leafleting campaigns.

From Seattle Times Jun. 1, 2024

The North’s balloon activities may deepen public calls in South Korea to stop anti-North Korean leafleting to avoid unnecessary clashes.

From Seattle Times May 30, 2024

The event will also be used to kickstart a summer programme of independence campaigning, which the party said would include leafleting, canvassing and regional assemblies.

From BBC Jun. 23, 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

His second concern is that the bill specifically prohibits someone from leafletting or talking to someone only about vaccines.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2021

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




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