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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

While tickets are now fully digital, the accessibility team did send out a helpful printed leaflet detailing the facilities we would have access to.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

The same year a patient information leaflet about Depo-Provera was updated by the UK medicines regulator and Pfizer to warn about brain tumours.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Marie-Laure LeBlanc stands alone in her bedroom smelling a leaflet she cannot read.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

During the first visit to Nye's home address on 29 August, the group had distributed leaflets they had printed to Nye's neighbours.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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

Young Roy was a political campaigner in his early teens, delivering leaflets and knocking on doors in support of local councillors and parliamentary candidates.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

They were followed by a wagon carrying twenty thousand suffrage leaflets, which they shared with interested people along the way, taking every chance to discuss the issue of voting rights for women.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

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

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

I often hear older people, those who marched, leafleted and shouted for justice in the ’60s, complain that Kids These Days are too complacent.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2014

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

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 school has been canvassing parents through leafleting and social media posts and is hoping to receive enough expressions of interest to make a primary school viable.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 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

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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