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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

"When we have a success we're very good at getting a leaflet sent out to supporters straight away," one senior MP said.

From BBC ● Sep. 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

Where possible, graduates took questions after the presentation and the script refers to an accompanying leaflet, which the BBC has not seen.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

Additional emergency exits are shown on the leaflet.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

Customs data from the Maldives shows a paltry amount of exports to Russia between 2022 and 2025—about $2,300 of tuna and $25 in leaflets and brochures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

"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

He would advertise his services by posting leaflets through front doors across England including in Kent, Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 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

Helmuth's fingers fly over the keys, and by midnight he has a stack of new leaflets.

From "The Boy Who Dared" 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

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

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

She said they were deployed to make good on her country’s recent threat to “scatter mounds of wastepaper and filth” in South Korea in response to the leafleting campaigns by South Korean activists.

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

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

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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