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leak

[leek] / lik /
NOUN
opening; seepage through opening
Synonyms
STRONGEST
crack exposure flow leakage
STRONG
aperture chink crevice drip escape fissure hole leaking loss outgoing percolation puncture
WEAK
decrease destruction detriment pit short circuit
VERB
seep; make known
Synonyms
STRONGEST
discharge disclose divulge escape ooze pass on reveal spill trickle
STRONG
break drip drool exude out pass percolate tell transpire
WEAK
come out get out give away let slip make public spill the beans
Antonyms
STRONGEST
conceal hide keep secrete

Example Sentences

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Turning to IP and DNS leaks, my testing revealed none at all.

From Salon

An earlier version of the source code had also been leaked in February 2025.

From BBC

The leak of “some internal source code” didn’t expose any customer information or data, a spokesman for Anthropic said.

From The Wall Street Journal

A post on X sharing a link to the leaked code had more than 29 million views early on Wednesday.

From Barron's

The claimants had a leaked "ledger" of Associated Newspaper payments, invoices from some private investigators and extracts from reporters notepads with cryptic handwritten details of payments to sources.

From BBC

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.