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Dairy farmers grazing cows in Point Reyes were paid to leave, but now they want back in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
One group of devoted players jokingly created a boilerplate agreement for a “GTA”-induced leave of absence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Organisers earlier wrote on social media that "all day visitors must leave the site now."
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Here’s how difficult it might be to get the lodgers to leave so the house can be sold.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
He’d not been able to leave his bed for three days after that.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
In most cases, insurers don’t answer to federal regulators, because Congress largely leaves insurance to the states.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"His Majesty leaves behind a Prince as his heir, whose identity will be formally revealed at the appropriate time, in accordance with the traditions and customs of Tooro Kingdom," he explained.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
According to Zivic, this leaves them with a stark choice: leave or live with the pollution.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Roki Sasaki leaves Dodgers-Braves game early because of a blister on the middle finger of his pitching hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
He wanted to tell stories, burn his big lamp, brew his bitter tea and drink five or six mugs, then eat the black leaves.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Curly Leafed Collards: Those curly leaved varieties Smith mentions can make them look more like kale than the large, smooth leaves we typically think of with collards.
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2023
“As soon as all the trees leaved out, I was like, ‘I’m staying forever,’” she said of spring’s recent start, singing those last few words in a soprano vibrato.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
Want to try out this delicately leaved vine?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2020
The etchings’ chief subject is nature’s bounty and mysteriousness, manifest in big, densely leaved trees and densely treed hillsides.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2013
The benches right at the water were all full, but one beneath a sparsely leaved young tree was empty.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
At four years old, Gracie Kinnear from Carmarthen was playing outside with friends during the school holidays when a van driver crashed into her, leaving her with life-threatening injuries.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
They said more tankers have been leaving the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf with transponders turned off — known as “dark crossings” — with satellite coverage limited and ship-to-ship transfers increasing.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
“There was no update on potential portfolio action, leaving manganese’s longer-term strategic fit unresolved as the aluminum divestment progresses,” it says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
She then jumped out of a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down and using a wheelchair.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
“I’m not leaving here until I win one of those green lizards. Did you see it? The one with the row of spikes down its back, that’s as tall as me?”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
His pay more than doubled just after the two hijackers' arrival in San Diego, agents found, and fell again after they left the US west coast.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Harris left Apollo in January 2022 and started 26 North Partners, an alternative asset management firm with some $37 billion under management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The agreements left California with just two offshore wind leases intact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Microsoft’s stock just sealed its longest stretch of gains in 10 months, underscoring how much it’s come back into favor as the software sector proves it hasn’t been left for dead in the artificial-intelligence era.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
But the pieces she left behind are enough to leave us in wonder.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing leave
"Growing Together" and "When I Grow Up"
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Spelling Practice 2, Unit 5
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