leaflet
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In 2016 a leaflet came through the door, detailing UWP and what Long could offer.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
"You've read the information leaflet," Jannoun told the injured Hearts and Scotland goalkeeper.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Cheryl explained how she tried to get her children help - but was simply given a leaflet that explained what happens when someone dies.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Mui offers him a leaflet in case he wants more information, and the man refuses to take it.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025
The Citizens Coordinating Committee, a group of prominent black men and women, mimeographed a leaflet and passed it around Montgomery.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
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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
"Politics was all around me," ap Iorwerth told the BBC's Political Thinking podcast, recalling how, as a toddler, he would amuse himself by piling up Plaid Cymru leaflets.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
They were carrying signs, chanting slogans, passing out leaflets.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
The IDF has also robo-called and leafleted neighborhoods, warning people to clear out before the area is invaded.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2014
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
In 2020, North Korea blew up an empty, South Korean-built liaison office on its territory in protest of South Korean civilian leafleting campaigns.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
A local election Green Party candidate has said she is recovering well after having part of her finger bitten off by a dog while leafleting.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 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
It started leafleting Llantwit Major in February, soon after Vale of Glamorgan Council announced that temporary houses for refugees were going to be built on the site of a closed-down primary school.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 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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